With the pressure on, and the match seemingly slipping away from his side, Collingwood turned on the style as he made the fastest Test ton of his career and his first since an innings of 128 at Chester-le-Street against West Indies in June 2007.

BBC: Collingwood elated to end bad run

The match seemed to be slipping away from John Joe Doherty's side as Kieran Fitzgerald and Sean Armstrong struck superb points to put Galway 0-11 to 0-9 ahead with 20 minutes left.

BBC: Sean Armstrong and Frank McGlynn

On the technical side, the pound had continued slipping overnight, but after reaching to within about 10 pips of the 1.4860 support level we have been eyeing for a few days, the bulls took over and the run for the pound began.

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Fellow South African side the Cats were not so fortunate, slipping to a 48-36 home defeat to Australia's New South Wales Waratahs .

BBC: Andrew Mehrtens

The Wallabies looked in danger of slipping to an embarrassing defeat to a severely understrength Springboks side as they trailed 17-0 in the first half.

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Poulsen tried to make amends for his error be slipping a ball through to Ngog but the young striker could only side-foot wide under pressure from ex-Reds left-back Dossena.

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Neither side looked convincing, Goodwillie lashing a great chance wide and Riordan slipping inside the box at the other end as he was about to pull the trigger.

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And the reason I ran for President, the reason I ran the first time for a state Senate seat on the South Side of Chicago was because for too many people that bargain, that dream felt like it was slipping away -- for too many people.

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