2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée
The 2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mouilleron-le-Captif, France between 3 and 9 November 2014.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a special exemption into the singles main draw::


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée – Doubles
First seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won the title, beating Tobias Kamke and Philipp Marx in the final 6–3, 6–4.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Vendée – Singles
Fifth seed Pierre-Hugues Herbert won the title, beating Marsel İlhan in the final 6-2, 6-3.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte
The 2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which is part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Andria, Italy between November 15 and November 23, 2014.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte – Doubles
Philipp Oswald and Andreas Siljeström were the defending champions, but Oswald did not participate that year, and Siljeström played alongside Roman Jebavý, but they lost in the final to Patrick Grigoriu and Costin Pavăl, 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–4), [5–10].


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte – Singles
Márton Fucsovics was the defending champion, but he did not participate that year.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Castel del Monte – Singles
Ričardas Berankis won the title, after Nikoloz Basilashvili retired in the final, winning 6–4, 1–0, ret.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza
The 2014 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Vicenza, Italy between 26 May and 1 June 2014.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza – Doubles
Andrej Martin and Igor Zelenay won the title, defeating Błażej Koniusz and Mateusz Kowalczyk in the final, 6–1, 7–5.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza – Singles
Filip Krajinović won the title, defeating Norbert Gombos in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia
The 2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cordenons, Italy between 11 and 17 August 2014.


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a special exemption into the singles main draw:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player entered into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player entered into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia – Doubles
Potito Starace and Adrian Ungur won the title, beating František Čermák and Lukáš Dlouhý 6–2, 6–4


2014 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia – Singles
Albert Montañés won the title, beating Potito Starace 6–2, 6–4


2014 Interprovincial Hurling Championship
The 2014 Interprovincial Hurling Championship, known as the 2014 M Donnelly Hurling Interprovincial Championship due to the tournament's sponsorship by businessman Martin Donnelly, is the 85th series of the Interprovincial Championship. The annual hurling championship between the four historic provinces of Ireland is contested by Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open
The 2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 27th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Heilbronn, Germany between 20 and 26 January 2014.


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players used protected ranking to get into the singles main draw:


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open – Doubles
Johan Brunström and Raven Klaasen were the defending champions but decided not to participate.


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open – Doubles
Bednarek and Kontinen won the title, defeating Ken Skupski and Neal Skupski in the final, 3–6, 7–6(7–3), [12–10].


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open – Singles
Michael Berrer was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinal to Peter Gojowczyk.


2014 Intersport Heilbronn Open – Singles
Gojowczyk won the title, defeating Igor Sijsling in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2014 Invictus Games
The first 2014 Invictus Games were held on 10–14 September 2014. Around 300 competitors from 13 countries which have fought alongside the United Kingdom in recent military campaigns participated. These included the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, New Zealand and Afghanistan. Competitive events were held at many of the venues used during the 2012 Olympics, including the Copper Box and the Lee Valley Athletics Centre. The Games were broadcast by the BBC.


2014 Invictus Games, Invited countries
14 countries were invited to the 2014 games, 8 from Europe, 2 from Asia, 2 from North America and 2 from Oceania. No countries from Africa were invited. There were teams from all the invited countries, except Iraq, competing in the games.


2014 Invictus Games, Sporting events
Athletics (aka track & field), archery, indoor rowing, powerlifting, road cycling, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The presenting partner Jaguar Land Rover also organised a driving challenge.


2014 Invictus Games, Closing concert
The closing concert was broadcast on BBC Two hosted by Clare Balding and Greg James. The concert was hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Fearne Cotton, with live performances from Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, James Blunt, Rizzle Kicks, Ryan Adams and Ellie Goulding.


2014 Iowa Barnstormers season
The 2014 Iowa Barnstormers season was the 14th season for the franchise, and their tenth in the Arena Football League. The team was coached by Mike Hohensee and played their home games at the Wells Fargo Arena. The Barnstormers lost their last six games of the season, and failed to reach the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season, finishing with a 6–12 record.


2014 Iowa Barnstormers season, Standings
x - Clinched playoff berthz - Clinched division and conference's best record


2014 Iowa Barnstormers season, Schedule
The Barnstormers began the season on March 15, on the road against the Spokane Shock. Their final regular season game took place on July 26 at home against the San Jose SaberCats.


2014 Iowa Corn Indy 300
The 2014 Iowa Corn Indy 300 was the 12th round of the 2014 IndyCar Series season. Scott Dixon scored his first pole of the season.


2014 Iowa Corn Indy 300, Report, Background
Iowa Speedway is the shortest track on the IndyCar schedule, being 0.894 miles (1.439 km) long. The previous race at Pocono was won by Juan Pablo Montoya who won his first race since his comeback. Montoya had scored his last IndyCar win in 2000 at Gateway.


2014 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 2014 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by 16th-year head coach Kirk Ferentz and played their home games at Kinnick Stadium. They were a member of the new West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 7–6, 4–4 in Big Ten play to finish in fourth place in the West Division. They were invited to the TaxSlayer Bowl where they lost to Tennessee.


2014 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Iowa
Future NFL star David Johnson had almost 250 yards of total offense for Northern Iowa but it still wasn't enough to upset host Iowa. The Panthers never went away and kept the game close until the final minutes, but a Hawkeye touchdown in the fourth quarter put the game out of reach.


2014 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northwestern
Mark Weisman ran for 94 yards and three touchdowns and freshman Akrum Wadley ran for 106 yards and a touchdown in this blowout victory for Iowa. The Hawkeyes dominated on both sides of the ball as Northwestern's lone touchdown was assisted by a muffed punt.


2014 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, vs. Tennessee (TaxSlayer Bowl)
The Volunteers scored touchdowns on their first four possessions to take a commanding 28–0 lead early in the 2nd quarter en route to a 35–7 halftime advantage. The Hawkeyes, alternating quarterbacks each of their first six possessions, struggled to find a rhythm on offense until late in the game. Tennessee now leads the series between the two teams, 2–1.


2014 Iowa Senate election
The 2014 Iowa Senate election was held on November 4, 2014. The Senate seats for the twenty-five odd-numbered districts were up for election. Senate terms are staggered such that half the membership is elected every two years, with each senator serving a four-year term. Prior to the election, the Democrats were in the majority. They kept this majority after the election. As of 2021, this is the last time the Democrats won a majority in the Iowa Senate.


2014 Iowa State Cyclones football team
The 2014 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Playing as a member of the Big 12 Conference (Big 12), the team was led by head coach Paul Rhoads, in his sixth year and played its home games at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. They finished the season 2–10, 0–9 in Big 12 play to finish in last place.


2014 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game Summaries, Game 2: vs. Kansas State Wildcats
Kansas State won its first game and entered the game with a record of 1–0, while Iowa State had just came off a loss against North Dakota State. Prior to the game, Iowa State has lost 32 of its last 36 games against ranked opponents while Kansas State had won the last six meetings overall after last season's 41-7 win. When ranked, the Wildcats have defeated the Cyclones in 10 straight dating to 1994.


2014 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game Summaries, Game 2: vs. Kansas State Wildcats
The game began with Kansas State taking an early lead 13–0 in the first quarter, but Iowa State scored a touchdown before the quarter concluded. That Iowa State touchdown was the first of four consecutive for the cyclones which led them in with a 28–20 lead at halftime. Neither team scored in the third period and Kansas State's defense continued the fourth quarter to prevent any score, allowing the Kansas State offense to produce two more touchdowns and a Wildcat victory 32–28. The comeback-from-behind victory was considered "defining" for Kansas State.


2014 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game Summaries, Game 2: vs. Kansas State Wildcats
During the game, Kansas State wide receiver Tyler Lockett caught a pass near the goal line on the sidelines. In this play, it appeared that his knee appeared touched a pylon. That event would by rule negate the catch. The Wildcats scored a touchdown on the next play, which prevented any additional video review. The Big 12 replay official and communicator were given a one-game suspension for failing to follow protocol.


2014 Iowa elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 4, 2014. All of Iowa's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, all four of Iowa's seats in the United States House of Representatives, 25 (half) of the seats in the Iowa Senate, and all 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on June 3, 2014.


2014 Iowa elections, Governor and lieutenant governor
Incumbent Republican Governor Terry Branstad ran for re-election to a second consecutive and sixth overall term as governor.


2014 Iowa elections, Governor and lieutenant governor
He was challenged in the Republican primary by Tom Hoefling, a political activist and the America's Party and American Independent Party nominee for President in 2012.


2014 Iowa elections, Governor and lieutenant governor
In Iowa, nominees for lieutenant governor are chosen at party conventions. They then run on a ticket with the gubernatorial nominee. Incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds is running for re-election to a second term in office.


2014 Iowa elections, Attorney General
Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller, who has served in the position since 1995, and previously from 1979 to 1991, ran for re-election to a sixth consecutive and ninth overall term in office.


2014 Iowa elections, Attorney General
Attorney and lobbyist, and future Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, Adam Gregg ran for the Republican Party.


2014 Iowa elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who has served in the position since 2011, did not run for re-election to a second term in office. He instead ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for Iowa's 3rd congressional district.


2014 Iowa elections, Secretary of State
Former Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate and Democratic political consultant and former gubernatorial aide Brad Anderson are running.


2014 Iowa elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Democratic State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald, who has served in the position since 1983, is running for re-election to a ninth term in office.


2014 Iowa elections, Treasurer
The Republican nominee is Sam Clovis, a radio host who finished second in the Senate primary, before being nominated as the Republican candidate for treasurer.


2014 Iowa elections, Auditor
Incumbent Republican State Auditor Mary Mosiman, who was appointed to the position in 2013 after incumbent State Auditor David A. Vaudt resigned, is running for election to a first full term in office.


2014 Iowa elections, Auditor
Attorney and former Des Moines School Board member Jon Neiderbach is running for the Democrats.


2014 Iowa elections, Secretary of Agriculture
Incumbent Republican Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, who has served in the position since 2007, is running for re-election to a third term in office.


2014 Iowa elections, Secretary of Agriculture
Polk County Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioner Sherrie Taha is running for the Democrats.


2014 Iowa elections, United States Senate
Incumbent Democratic Senator Tom Harkin is retiring rather than run for re-election to a sixth term in office.


2014 Iowa elections, United States Senate
U.S. Representative Bruce Braley is the only Democratic to file to run and thus the de facto nominee.


2014 Iowa elections, United States Senate
Five Republicans filed to run: radio host Sam Clovis, State Senator Joni Ernst, former CEO of Reliant Energy Mark Jacobs, businessman Scott Schaben and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa and nominee for Treasurer of Iowa in 2002 Matthew Whitaker.


2014 Iowa elections, United States House of Representatives
All of Iowa's four seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election in 2014 and are contested.


2014 Iowa elections, Iowa General Assembly
The 25 odd-numbered Iowa Senate seats are up for election in 2014, as are all 100 Iowa House seats. As of the primary filing deadline for the two major parties, there are 11 Senate seats and 58 House seats that only have candidates from one party, though several of these seats have contested primaries. These numbers are from the primary election candidate listing, so do not take into account candidates nominated by third parties, candidates nominated by petition, or candidates nominated by a major party after the primary. Such candidates file during the general election filing period, which runs from July 28 – August 15, 2014.


2014 Iowa gubernatorial election
The 2014 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of Iowa. Republican incumbent Terry Branstad ran for reelection to a sixth overall and second consecutive four-year term. Branstad went on to win a historic sixth term as governor by defeating Democratic challenger and State Senator Jack Hatch, and on December 14, 2015, he became the longest-serving governor in American history. He won 59.1% of the popular vote to Hatch's 37.3%, and carried every county in the state except Johnson.


2014 Iowa gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Narcisse was disqualified from appearing on the ballot in the Democratic primary following a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court that upheld a lower court decision that held that Narcisse had not submitted enough valid signatures to be placed on the ballot for the primary election. Narcisse continued his campaign and declared his intention to run for the nomination as a write-in candidate. When he was unsuccessful, he announced that he would be running in the general election as the nominee of the Iowa Party.


2014 Ipswich Borough Council election
The 2014 Ipswich Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Ipswich Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 Iquique earthquake
The 2014 Iquique earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on 1 April, with a moment magnitude of 8.2, at 20:46 local time (23:46 UTC). The epicenter of the earthquake was approximately 95 kilometres (59 mi) northwest of Iquique. The mainshock was preceded by a number of moderate to large shocks and was followed by a large number of moderate to very large aftershocks, including a M7.7 event on 3 April. The megathrust earthquake triggered a tsunami of up to 2.11 metres (6.9 ft) that hit Iquique at 21:05 local time (00:05 UTC, 2 April). Similar-sized tsunamis were also reported to have hit the coasts of Pisagua and Arica.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Geology
A number of mid-sized quakes struck the same area in the preceding weeks. These quakes and the main tremor are associated with the boundary of the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Earthquake
There was a cluster of earthquakes starting from the one occurring on 16 March with a magnitude of Mw 6.7, and a large earthquake had been expected. The 8.2 earthquake was smaller than what was expected, with a rupture of 200 km (120 mi) in length instead of the expected 600 km (370 mi) rupture. The earthquake was felt in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. The intensity reached intensity VIII (Severe) in Iquique, Chile.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Earthquake, Effects
Four men died of heart attacks and one woman was reportedly crushed to death when a wall collapsed. A loader was crushed by a falling metal structure and died of the injuries afterwards. Electricity and water services were interrupted in the regions of Arica y Parinacota and Tarapacá.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Earthquake, Effects
During the aftermath of the earthquake, 293 prisoners escaped from a women's prison in Iquique when a wall collapsed. Many returned voluntarily a short time later, while Chilean soldiers searched for the rest.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Earthquake, Effects
According to the Peruvian emergency services, nine people were slightly injured, seven households have been affected, one temple has collapsed and electricity outages in the affected regions of Tacna, Moquegua and Arequipa occurred, which were restored later.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
There were several significant aftershocks above 6.0 magnitude and many more of lower magnitude over subsequent days.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Earthquake, Associated events
Such large earthquakes can have effects far away other than tsunamis. A megathrust quake can shake the entire earth, but causes stronger movement and strain on the entire associated oceanic plate, beyond the few hundred kilometer rupture zone. Though too far to be an aftershock, a 6.0 quake on a thin protruding wedge of the Nazca Plate  (Iquique quake shoved this plate) was reported off Panama within 12 hours of the main shock.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Tsunami
Under advice from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, tsunami warnings were issued for the Latin American Pacific coastlines of Chile, Peru, and Ecuador shortly after the earthquake occurred. Chile was subsequently hit by a tsunami of 2.11 m in its northern territories.


2014 Iquique earthquake, Tsunami
The tsunami warning was later canceled for all countries except Chile and Peru within a few hours of the earthquake. The tsunami warning was canceled for both Chile and Peru at around 4:58 UTC on 2 April. Hawaii was under a tsunami advisory for over 13 hours. On 3 April local time, tsunamis were observed in Japan. The tsunami reached 60 centimetres (2.0 ft) high in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.


2014 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division
The 2014 Iranian Futsal 2nd Division will be divided into two phases.


2014 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division
The league will also be composed of 20 teams divided into Three divisions. Two divisions of 7 teams each and one division 6 teams, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams will play only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 18 matches each.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 April 2014. The elections decided the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Electoral system
The open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the governorates as the constituencies, is the electoral system used. The counting system has been changed slightly from the largest remainder method to the modified Sainte-Laguë method due to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Iraq that the previous method discriminated against smaller parties. Seven "compensatory" seats that were awarded at the national level to those parties whose national share of the vote wasn't reflected in the seats won at the governorate level have been allocated to individual governorates. Eight seats remain reserved for minority groups at the national level: five for Assyrians and one each for Mandaeans, Yezidis, and Shabaks.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Electoral system, Seat allocation
Prior to the elections, the parliament decided to expand from 325 to 328. As with the 2010 elections, 8 seats were reserved for ethnic and religious minorities. Unlike previous elections, there were no compensatory seats.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign
The campaign was expected to focus on competition within the three main religious and ethnic communities: Shi'ite Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds. While under the Constitution of Iraq the head of the largest coalition has the first call to become prime minister, in a precedent set following the 2010 election, a revised coalition can be formed following the election. This reduced the incentive for parties to form broad coalitions prior to the election. So in November 2011, Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission approved 276 political entities to run in the elections, including a number of coalitions.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign
Shi'ite Arabs were split between the Prime Minister's State of Law Coalition, the Sadrist al-Ahrar Bloc, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq backed al-Muwatin coalition. The former secular, non-sectarian Iraqiya bloc – 2010 the strongest force elected into parliament – had broken apart into Usama al-Nujayfi's Sunni regionalist Muttahidoon coalition, Ayad Allawi's National Coalition al-Wataniya, and Saleh al-Mutlaq's al-Arabiya Coalition. And the two prominent Kurdish parties, Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), were joined by a third Kurdish party, the Movement for Change (Gorran) headed by Nawshirwan Mustafa.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Conduct
As members of the security forces voted on Monday 28 April, six different polling stations were hit by suicide bombers, leading to at least 27 deaths. Insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has threatened violence against Sunni Muslims who vote in the election.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation
The first session of the new parliament began on 1 July where all 328 members took oath to carry out their legal tasks and responsibilities devotedly and honestly and preserve the independence and sovereignty of Iraq, and safeguard the interests of its people. The constitution mentions that in the first session, the parliament has to elect a Speaker for the House along with two deputies. This didn't happen as some Kurdish and Sunni Arab MPs boycotted the session causing a lack of quorum since they did not agree on a single candidate.


2014 Iraqi parliamentary election, Government formation
The next session took place on 13 July and brought about a consensus for the post of Speaker after it was announced that Salim al-Jabouri was the candidate. After Salim al-Jabouri was voted as Speaker of the House, the parliament voted for Fuad Masum as President who in turn asked Haider al-Abadi to form a government on 11 August. The government was formed on 8 September 2014 with most parties being part of the new government.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina
In June 2014, Ireland played a two-test series against Argentina. This was Ireland's first test series against Argentina since 2007, in which Argentina won that series 2–0. However, Ireland did go into this series on the back of a Six Nations Championship victory, and three consecutive win over Argentina. Including a record winning margin of 22, the last time these two teams faced each other. The tour is part of the third year on the global rugby calendar established by the International Rugby Board, which runs through to 2019.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina
Ireland won the series 2–0, the first time they had won a test series in Argentina, and won the Admiral Brown Cup for the second time.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads
Note: Caps and ages are to 7 June, pre first test.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads, Ireland
On 19 May 2014, Ireland announced a 30-man squad for their 2014 tour of Argentina.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads, Ireland
On 21 May 2014, Paddy Jackson was ruled out of the tour due to injury. He was replaced by Ian Madigan.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads, Ireland
On 1 June 2014, Keith Earls and Martin Moore were ruled out of the tour due to injuries. Earls was replaced by Noel Reid, while Moore was replaced by Rodney Ah You. Both these replacements were promoted from the Emerging Ireland side that is participating in the 2014 IRB Nations Cup in Bucharest.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads, Ireland
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads, Argentina
Argentina 33-man Squad for their June tests against Ireland and Scotland, plus the uncapped match against a South American XV side.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Squads, Argentina
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches, First Test
Touch judges:Mike Fraser (New Zealand)Jaco van Heerden (South Africa)Television match official:Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)


2014 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches, Second Test
Touch judges:Glen Jackson (New Zealand)John Lacey (Ireland)Television match official:Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)


2014 Irish Greyhound Derby
The 2014 Boylesports Irish Greyhound Derby took place during August and September with the final being held on 13 September 2014 at Shelbourne Park. The winner Laughil Blake picked up the first prize of €125,000 that was on offer. The competition was sponsored by Boylesports.


2014 Irish Greyhound Derby, Final result, Competition Race Report
The Easter Cup champion Skywalker Farloe was the clear 10-1 favourite in the ante-post betting, followed by newcomer Droopys Nidge at 12-1. The mandatory first round resulted in the elimination of 2012 champion Skywalker Puma who finished lame after a long lay-off through injury and Boylesports Hero also  finished lame with a hock injury. The fastest heat winner was Laughil Blake in 29.43.


2014 Irish Greyhound Derby, Final result, Competition Race Report
The James Roche trained Ballyana Foxtrot recorded 29.39 in round two and Cabra Buck, Kereight King, Fiery Splendour and Jaytee Seville were all surprise eliminations. The best third round performance saw Paradise Maverick (Pat Buckley) win his heat in 29.43 and remain unbeaten, in the very next heat Laughil Blake repeated the time and the pair went into the quarter finals as the new market leaders with Mind The Net and Ballymac Vic just behind. The leading British challenger Holdem Spy was eliminated together with Droopys Nidge and Metro Jack.


2014 Irish Greyhound Derby, Final result, Competition Race Report
Ballymac Vic and Vulturi both won their quarter finals but Paradise Maverick’s campaign ended. The third quarter final was the hardest on paper in which Laughil Blake won again from Deanridge Pennys and Droopys Ward whilst Mind The Net went out. The fourth And final heat resulted in an impressive performance by Tyrur Sugar Ray who recorded 29.44 defeating Skywalker Farloe by seven lengths.


2014 Irish Greyhound Derby, Final result, Competition Race Report
Laughil Blake comfortably won the first semi-final  with Emers Superstar running on well for second place and Tyrur Sugar Ray claiming the final place to reach a third successive Irish Derby final; the final British challenger Droopys Ward missed out in fourth. The second semi ended with success for Vulturi who caught the leader Borneo, Ballymac Vic took third place to reach a second Irish Derby final.


2014 Irish Greyhound Derby, Final result, Competition Race Report
In the final Laughil Blake deservedly won despite trapping behind Borneo, Ballymac Vic and Tyrur Sugar Ray but he had enough early pace to soon take the lead. Tyrur Sugar Ray was retired to stud soon after the final.


2014 Irish budget
The 2014 Irish budget was the Irish Government budget for the 2014 fiscal year, which was presented to Dáil Éireann on 15 October 2013.


2014 Irish budget
Michael Noonan outlined the taxation measures with Brendan Howlin detailing the spending cuts. Speaking before the budget, Michael Noonan said that €2.5bn will be taken out of the economy in the Budget and not the projected €3.1bn.


2014 Irish budget
The budget has been met with a mixed reaction from various representative groups and organisations.


2014 Irish budget, Summary
Budget 2014 involved €2.5bn in spending cuts and tax increases.


2014 Irish cricket season
In the 2014 Irish cricket season, Ireland hosted three international series, against Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka A and Scotland, losing the two against Sri Lankan teams, but beating Scotland. In domestic cricket, Leinster Lightning won two of the three competitions, while North-West Warriors won the other.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, One Day International series against Sri Lanka
Prior to their series against England, the Sri Lanka national cricket team visited Ireland in May to contest two ODIs, both hosted at Clontarf Cricket Club Ground in Dublin. In the first match, Ireland won the toss and invited Sri Lanka to bat first. Tim Murtagh was described as being "almost unplayable" by Ger Siggins of ESPNcricinfo, and the Irish bowling attack was generally praised for maintaining pressure on Sri Lanka, who were restricted to 219 for eight from their 50 overs. During their response, Ireland lost too many early wickets, struggling to 74 for seven.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, One Day International series against Sri Lanka
They were eventually dismissed for 140, giving Sri Lanka a 79 run victory. Ajantha Mendis was named man of the match for taking three wickets and conceding only 27 runs. The second ODI, two days later was abandoned without any play because of rain, granting Sri Lanka a 1–0 series victory.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, List A series against Sri Lanka A
A couple of months after their series against Sri Lanka, Ireland were visited by Sri Lanka A, who played a three match "unofficial ODI" series, which were given List A status. The first two matches were played at Civil Service Cricket Club Ground in Belfast, while the third was scheduled for Lodge Road, Coleraine. Sri Lanka A lost the toss in the first match and were asked to bat first. After losing a wicket in the first over, Mahela Udawatte and Danushka Gunathilaka shared a 106-run partnership. Thereafter, the team regularly lost wickets and completed their innings 283 all out.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, List A series against Sri Lanka A
In reply, Ireland never established a significant partnership, with only Stuart Poynter, who scored 109 runs, making a significant score, and Ireland lost by 28 runs. Sri Lanka A batted first again in the second match, and half-century scores for four of their first five batsmen helped to  propel them to a score of 329 for eight. The captain, Ashan Priyanjan was the team's top-scorer, with 111 runs. Poynter opened the innings for Ireland, but was dismissed first ball, and his fellow opener, Andy Balbirnie, followed two overs later. Stuart Thompson scored a half-century, but five wickets from the leg-spinner Seekkuge Prasanna helped Sri Lanka A to a 107 runs victory. As in the ODI series, the final match was abandoned due to rain, so Sri Lanka A won the series 2–0.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, One Day International series against Scotland
Late in the season, during September, Scotland travelled to Ireland to play three ODIs at the Malahide Cricket Club Ground in Dublin. The Irish squad was largely similar to that which faced Sri Lanka A, though John Mooney, Kevin O'Brien, George Dockrell and Max Sorensen returned to the squad. Ireland won the toss and chose to bowl first, and regularly took wickets to restrict Scotland to a total of 172. Craig Young became the ninth player to take five wickets during their ODI debut, to help bowl Scotland out after 40 overs and three balls.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, One Day International series against Scotland
Ireland chased the target down easily, aided by a half-century from O'Brien, to win by seven wickets. Scotland fared better in the second match after once again being invited to bat first; an unbeaten century from Richie Berrington helped his side reach 221. O'Brien was Ireland's leading run-scorer again, with 67 runs, and despite losing a few wickets once O'Brien was dismissed, Ireland reached the target with over five overs to spare.


2014 Irish cricket season, International cricket, One Day International series against Scotland
Shortly before the third match of the series, an interview with Mooney was broadcast on RTÉ Sport, in which he spoke about his battle against depression which had forced him to take a break from international cricket. During the match, he was received a standing ovation for his score of 96, which held the Irish innings together, though they finished on a below-par score of 241. Scotland's off-spiiner, Majid Haq, collected five wickets in the innings. In their reply, Scotland lost the wicket of Matthew Cross in the second over, but a partnership of 182 between Calum MacLeod and Hamish Gardiner helped to seal their only victory of the series, with the former reaching his second ODI century.


2014 Irish cricket season, Domestic cricket
Leinster Lightning won the 2014 Inter-Provincial Championship for the second successive year, finishing with three wins and draw from their four matches. They also won the 50-over Inter-Provincial Cup, in which they won all four of their matches, but they finished as runners-up in the Twenty20 competition, with North-West Warriors winning the Inter-Provincial Trophy. North-West batsmen dominated the batting tables, as three of the four players to top 200 runs in the Championship; Craig Ervine scored the most, accruing 224. A North-West player also topped the bowled charts, James Cameron-Dow, though the three next best bowlers all played for Leinster.


2014 Irish cricket season, Domestic cricket
The Irish Senior Cup and Alan Murray Twenty20 Cup finals were both contested between Clontarf and The Hills. The Hills finished as Senior Cup winners, claiming a nine-run victory, aided by half-centuries from Cormac McLoughlin and Michael Baumgart. In the Twenty20 competition, Clontarf took a more comprehensive win, scoring 142 runs, including 60 from Andrew Poynter, and then bowling The Hills out for 95.


2014 Irish local elections
The 2014 Irish local elections were held in all local government areas of the Republic of Ireland on Friday, 23 May 2014, on the same day as the European Parliament election and two by-elections (Dublin West and Longford–Westmeath). The poll in the Ballybay–Clones LEA on Monaghan County Council was deferred due to the death of a candidate.


2014 Irish local elections, Overview
These elections took place after the coming into force of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, under which city and county councils were contested under substantially redrawn local electoral area (LEA) boundaries, including an overall increase of seats to 949, up from 883 in the 2009 local elections. It also saw the abolition of borough and town councils. New municipal districts were created within most counties. Generally, a municipal district contains one LEA, though a few districts around larger urban areas contain multiple LEAs.


2014 Irish local elections, Overview
The elections took place a little over three years after the last general election, which led to a government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party. The elections were a major setback for Fine Gael and Labour. Fine Gael lost control of many councils, falling behind Fianna Fáil on some. Labour lost more than half of its local authority seats. Fianna Fáil showed a recovery, again becoming the largest party at local level with an increased share of the vote. The party also took control of some councils, while on others it formed alliances with Fine Gael. Sinn Féin was the main winner in this election, becoming the third-largest party at local level. There were also major gains for independents and smaller parties. As a result of its disastrous performance, the Labour leader Eamon Gilmore resigned.


2014 Irish local elections, Opinion polls
Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. Only polls conducted in the period leading up to the election and immediately afterwards are shown.


2014 Irish local elections, Results
Results from the Anti- Austerity Alliance are compared to the Socialist Party in the 2009 local elections. Republican Sinn Féin are not a registered party; therefore, their candidates appear on the ballot as Non-Party.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship
The 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship was a triathlon competition that was held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada on September 7, 2014 and won by Javier Gomez of Spain and Daniela Ryf of Switzerland. The championship was organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) and was the culmination of the Ironman 70.3 series of events that occurred from August 16, 2013 through July 27, 2014. Athletes, both professional and amateur, earned a spot in the championship race by qualifying in races throughout the 70.3 series. A prize purse of $250,000 was distributed to the top 10 male and female professional athletes, a $50,000 increase from the previous year.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship
This was the first year of the championship event being held in a non-recurring location. Previously, the last eight annual races had been held in only two locations, the Las Vegas area for the prior three races, and Clearwater, Florida before that. In 2014, the championship race began changing locations each year.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification
The 2014 Ironman 70.3 Series featured 59 events that enabled qualification to the 2014 World Championship event. Professional triathletes qualified for the championship race by competing in races during the qualifying period, earning points towards their pro rankings. An athlete's five highest scoring races were counted toward their pro rankings. The top 50 males and top 35 females in the pro rankings qualified for the championship race. The previous five 70.3 champions, as well as last year's Ironman World Champions and Hy-Vee Triathlon winners received an automatic qualifying spot. Professional athletes were also eligible for prize purses at each qualifying event, which ranged in total size from $15,000 to $250,000.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification
Amateur triathletes could qualify for the championship race by earning a qualifying slot at one of the qualifying events. At qualifying events, slots were allocated to each age group category, male and female, with the number of slots given out based on that category's proportional representation of the overall field. Each age group category was tentatively allocated one qualifying spot in each qualifying event. Some 70.3 events also served as qualifiers for the full Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. However, the 2014 qualifying year would be the final year for the current five, non-hand cycle, qualifying races in this capacity. This was to accommodate for the increased number of qualifying slots created from the newly added full Ironman events.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification, Qualifying Ironman 70.3 events
†Also serves as a 2014 Ironman World Championship qualifier. ‡Also serves as the handcycle championships and as 2014 Ironman World Championship handcycle qualifier


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification, Qualifying Ironman 70.3 events
The Ironman 70.3 Berlin race, scheduled to take place on July 13, 2014, was canceled on April 30, 2014. Ironman cited that the race licensee, SCC Events, was unable to get the city of Berlin to approve a bike course route.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification, Qualifying pro men
Qualifying slots into the championship race were awarded to the top 50 men in points. Slots that were not accepted by an athlete were rolled down to the next highest eligible qualifier in points.


2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification, Qualifying pro women
Qualifying slots were awarded to the top 35 women in points. Slots that were not accepted by an athlete were rolled down to the next highest eligible qualifier in points.


2014 Ironman World Championship
The 2014 Ironman World Championship was a long distance triathlon competition that was held on October 11, 2014 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The event was won by Sebastian Kienle of Germany and Australia's Mirinda Carfrae. It was the 38th edition of the Ironman World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978, with an additional race in 1982. The championship was organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) and awarded a total purse prize of $650,000.


2014 Ironman World Championship, Qualification
For entry into the 2014 World Championship race, amateur athletes were required to qualify through a performance at an Ironman or selected Ironman 70.3 series race. Entry into the championship race could also be obtained through a random allocation lottery, through Ironman's Legacy program, or through the Ironman’s charitable eBay auction. The division of athletes is divided into professional, age group, physically challenged, and hand cycle divisions.


2014 Ironman World Championship, Qualification
For professional triathletes, a point system determines which professional triathletes qualify for the championship race. To qualify, points are earned by competing in WTC sanctioned Ironman and Ironman 70.3 events throughout the qualifying year. For the 2014 championship race that period was August 31, 2013 to August 24, 2014. The top 50 male and top 35 female pros in points at the end of the qualifying year qualified to race in Kona. An athlete's five highest scoring races were counted in the point totals.


2014 Ironman World Championship, Qualification
At least one Ironman race must have been completed and only three Ironman 70.3 races counted towards an athlete's overall point total. Prior champions of a WTC Championship receive an automatic entry for the Championship race for a period of five years after their last championship performance provided that they competed in at least one full-distance Ironman race during the qualifying year. Their entry does not count toward the number of available qualifying spots. Available prize money to professional triathletes for qualifying race ranged from $25,000 to $125,000.


2014 Ironman World Championship, Qualification
The 2014 Ironman series consisted of 29 Ironman races plus the 2013 Ironman World Championship which was itself a qualifier for the 2014 Championship.


2014 Ironman World Championship, Disabled
Racing driver and paracyclist Alex Zanardi completed the 2014 Ironman World Championship in a time of 9:47:14, ranking 272nd overall and 19th out of 247 in the 45- to 49-year-old age group category. He used a handbike for the cycling section and an Olympic wheelchair for the running section.


2014 Irving Tennis Classic
The 2014 Irving Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which will be part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Irving, United States between 10 and 16 March 2013.


2014 Irving Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Irving Tennis Classic – Doubles
Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner were the defending champions, but decided not to compete.


2014 Irving Tennis Classic – Doubles
Santiago González and Scott Lipsky won the title, defeating John-Patrick Smith and Michael Venus in the final, 4–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–7]


2014 Irving Tennis Classic – Singles
Jürgen Melzer was the defending champion but withdrew due to injury.


2014 Irving Tennis Classic – Singles
Lukáš Rosol won the title, defeating Steve Johnson in the final, 6–0, 6–3.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race
The 2014 Irwin Tools Night Race was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 23, 2014, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. Contested over 500 laps, it was the 24th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Joey Logano of Team Penske took his third win of the season. Logano's teammate Brad Keselowski finished second while Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson, and Kurt Busch completed the top five placings. The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (12th), Justin Allgaier (19th), and Austin Dillon (28th). This would also be the final race for veteran NASCAR driver, Jeff Burton.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Previous week's race
Jeff Gordon took the lead from Joey Logano at the final restart and went on to win for the 91st time in his career, in the Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Gordon stated that he had "got a really good restart, and I got to his quarter panel in Turn 1 and I was able to drag him back and it allowed me to get the momentum and get by him". Logano felt he had Gordon cleared and lamented that he "should have pulled down in front of him".


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Report, Background
Bristol Motor Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.533 miles (0.858 km) long. The track's turns are banked from twenty-four to thirty degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked from six to ten degrees. The back stretch also has banking from six to ten degrees. The track has a seating capacity of 160,000 people. The race consisted of 500 laps; equivalent to a race distance of 266.5 miles (428.9 km). The defending race winner was Matt Kenseth.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Report, Background
Tony Stewart was on the entry list for the weekend's race, but following the events that took place at Canandaigua Motorsports Park, it was unknown if he'd be in the car. On Wednesday, August 20, Stewart-Haas Racing released a statement that Stewart would sit out again and Jeff Burton would drive in his place. The team would continue to evaluate the drive on a week-by-week basis.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Report, Background
Ryan Truex was cleared to race at Bristol after missing the previous week's race at Michigan. He suffered a concussion in a single car crash during the second practice session and J. J. Yeley drove in his place. Truex stated that he was "happy to be back to it this weekend" on Twitter.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Report, Entry list
The entry list for the Irwin Tools Night Race was released on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 11:05 a.m. Eastern time. Forty-three drivers were entered for the race.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Practice, First practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 14.638 and a speed of 131.083 mph (210.958 km/h). David Gilliland hit the wall as a result of a stuck throttle; he was forced to switch to a backup car as a result.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Practice, Final practice
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 14.642 and a speed of 131.048 mph (210.901 km/h).


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Qualifying
Kevin Harvick won the pole with a new track record time of 14.607 and a speed of 131.362 mph (211.407 km/h). Harvick saw his qualifying position as an advantage, as he deemed that "track position is definitely as important as it is anywhere here with the current groove and where you are running" and also "felt good about our car during practice and just have to stay in there all night and do the best we can".


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Qualifying
Jeff Gordon joined Harvick on the front row, and stated that he "thought our car was a little bit better in race trim than it was in qualifying trim when we swapped over", and also stated that the conditions of the track were very tricky. Aric Almirola, Kyle Larson and Cole Whitt hit the wall during qualifying, with Almirola lamenting the fact and stating he had "probably the best race car I've ever had at Bristol and I screwed up and hit the fence".


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Start
The race was scheduled to start at 7:46 p.m. Eastern time but started three minutes late when Kevin Harvick led the field to the green. Harvick led the race until lap 38 when Jeff Gordon took the lead. He led until lap 55 when Kyle Busch assumed the lead of the race, and held it to the first caution of the race; at lap 61, there was a competition caution that had been scheduled due to overnight rain showers around the vicinity of the circuit. Harvick retook the lead during the caution period; Kyle Busch came off pit road as the leader, but he was sent to the rear of the field for speeding in the pits and Matt Kenseth assumed the lead for the restart on lap 68.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Calamity
The caution came out a lap later for a multi-car crash in turn 2, before the race restarted on lap 77. Kenseth maintained the lead of the race, for a good portion of the race; he was not headed until Joey Logano took the lead on lap 104. The caution flew for the third time on lap 125 for a multi-car wreck on the backstretch that began when Brian Vickers got into Kyle Larson, and then spun into Aric Almirola. Clint Bowyer then ran into Kyle Busch, sending Busch spinning into the inside wall. Denny Hamlin took the lead during the caution period, and held the lead as the race restarted on lap 137.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
"He thinks he knows everything. I wish I had some kind of car left to show him the favor back. We're not even halfway. It's just a misjudgment. He's a good driver. He knows better. He made a mistake. I thought for sure after the first couple of runs we were going to win the race. We were really fast. These are the racetracks we have to capitalize on. With what we've got, these are the tracks we can get wins and get the momentum going for the Chase. This is still not going to stop our momentum because we ran strong."


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
Denny Hamlin, referring to Kevin Harvick after their collision while racing for the lead.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
While racing for the lead, Harvick tapped Hamlin, which sent him spinning into the inside wall on the front stretch. Hamlin's car bounced off the wall, and back up towards the track where it hit the left-hand side of the car of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., ripping all the protection foam out of it. This brought out the fourth caution of the race on lap 161; Hamlin subsequently threw his HANS device at Harvick's car. This was the second straight year that the two drivers had a post-crash altercation during the summer Bristol race.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
Post-race, Harvick described the incident as "I just lost the front end, honestly", apportioning blame on himself. Hamlin was angered at the way his race ended, which left him with a 40th-place finish. Earnhardt, Jr. tried to avoid a collision with Hamlin's car, but as he described it, "there was a lot of smoke so I couldn't really judge the speed of his car to know whether I needed to be going up there and go around him on the top". The damage to his car – the lower control arm was torn off his left-front tire – left him with a 39th-place finish.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
The race restarted on lap 173 with Harvick leading the way. Harvick held the lead until the fifth caution of the race, which flew on lap 195, after Michael Annett hit the wall in turn 4. Kasey Kahne took the lead after staying out when the leaders pitted, and led the field to the restart on lap 201. Kahne led the next portion of the race, before Jamie McMurray took over at the front on lap 238.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
McMurray led until the caution flew for the sixth time on lap 264, after Danica Patrick got spun out by Alex Bowman in turn 2. Bowman referred to the incident as looking "like somebody slid up a couple of cars in front of her and they all checked up", and added that he spoke to Patrick post-race about the incident – this occurred after Patrick ran up on Bowman to show her displeasure, after the incident.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, First half, Tempers flare
Patrick stated that her and Bowman had made up but stated that if the two came into contact on the track again, "worse things will happen". Brad Keselowski took the lead during the pit cycle, and held the race lead for the restart on lap 270. Keselowski maintained the race beyond the 300-lap mark, and until lap 312, when McMurray assumed the lead once again. McMurray held the lead for almost 50 laps before the caution flag flew for the seventh time during the race; this was caused by debris on the track. McMurray won the race off pit road, despite Logano momentarily taking the lead through the pit process.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, Second half
The race restarted on lap 367, with McMurray in the lead. It was a short-lived restart, as the caution came out for the eighth time on lap 375 after Marcos Ambrose crashed on the front stretch. McMurray again led to the restart, on lap 382. A 50-lap green-flag period followed, before the ninth and final caution of the race – on lap 431 – for debris. Logano and Matt Kenseth both led a lap during the caution period, before the restart on lap 438.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, Second half
Kyle Busch had been complaining late in the race about his car; he stated over his car's radio that "I need a whole new right front suspension, a whole new right front suspension". In light of his driver's complaints, crew chief Dave Rogers had no sympathy for him: "Park it behind the truck and take your whiny little ass to the bus". Busch recorded a 36th-place finish, after leading eight laps earlier in the race.


2014 Irwin Tools Night Race, Race, Second half
Rogers deemed the race as "frustrating", and also stated that he and Busch spoke after the race following the communications over the radio, and "had a great talk". Team owner Joe Gibbs said Busch and Rogers cleared the air before they left the track, after "a frustrating night", but Gibbs was "kind of used to it". Logano took the lead with 45 laps to go and had to hold off a late race charge by Penske teammate Keselowski to score his third win of the 2014 season. Logano described the result as "awesome", and also reflected on his personal best 2014 campaign. Keselowski praised Logano's performance, stating that "he ran a great race" while his car "was just about equal to Joey's but he just had better track position than on us".


2014 Isla Vista killings
The 2014 Isla Vista killings were a series of deadly misogynistic terror attacks in Isla Vista, California. On the evening of May 23, 22-year old Elliot Rodgerkilled six people and injured fourteen others – by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming – near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and then killed himself.


2014 Isla Vista killings
Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment, apparently one by one on their arrival. About three hours later he drove to a sorority house, and after failing to get inside shot three women outside, two of whom died. He next drove past a nearby deli and shot to death a male student inside. He then began to drive through Isla Vista, shooting and wounding several pedestrians from his car and striking several others with his car. He exchanged gunfire with police twice, and was injured in the hip. After his car crashed into a parked vehicle, he was found dead inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.


2014 Isla Vista killings
Before driving to the sorority house, Rodger uploaded a video to YouTube titled "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", in which he outlined his planned attack and his motives. He explained that he wanted to punish women for rejecting him, and sexually active men because he envied them. He also emailed a lengthy autobiographical manuscript to acquaintances, his therapist, and family members; the document appeared on the Internet and became widely known as his manifesto. In it, he described his childhood, family conflicts, frustration over his inability to find a girlfriend, his hatred of women, his contempt for couples (particularly interracial couples) and his plans for what he described as "retribution".


2014 Isla Vista killings
The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at the Hague has described the killings as an act of misogynist terrorism.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator
Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger (July 24, 1991 – May 23, 2014) was the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Early life
Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger was an English-born American college student. Born in London, England, he moved to the United States with his parents at age five. He was raised in Los Angeles. His father is British filmmaker Peter Rodger, his paternal grandfather photo-journalist George Rodger. His mother is a Malaysian Chinese research assistant for a film company. A younger sister was born before his parents divorced. After his father remarried, Peter and his second wife Soumaya Akaaboune, a Moroccan actress with whom Elliot had a strained relationship, had a son together.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Early life
Rodger attended Crespi Carmelite High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Encino, Los Angeles, and then Taft High School in Woodland Hills. He graduated from Independence Continuation High School in Lake Balboa in 2009, and briefly attended Los Angeles Pierce College and Moorpark College before moving to Isla Vista in 2011. He attended Santa Barbara City College; in his manifesto he said that he dropped out of his classes in February 2012; after the killings the school said he had no longer been taking classes.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Mental health and social problems
According to his family's attorney and a family friend, Rodger had seen multiple therapists since he was eight years old, but the attorney said he had never been formally diagnosed with a mental illness. He was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, an autism spectrum disorder, in 2007.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Mental health and social problems
By the ninth grade, Rodger was "increasingly bullied", and wrote later that he "cried by [himself] at school every day"; at this time he developed an obsession with the multiplayer-online game World of Warcraft, which dominated his life for most of his teenage years, and briefly into his 20s. At Crespi Carmelite High he was bullied; in one incident his head was taped to a desk while he was asleep.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Mental health and social problems
According to Rodger, in 2012, "the one friend [he] had in the whole world who truly understood [him] ... said he didn't want to be friends anymore" without offering any reason. Rodger had a YouTube account, and a blog titled "Elliot Rodger's Official Blog", through which he expressed loneliness and rejection. He wrote that he had been prescribed risperidone but refused to take it, stating, "After researching this medication, I found that it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take."


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Mental health and social problems
After turning 18, Rodger began rejecting mental health care and became increasingly isolated. He said that he was unable to make friends, although acquaintances said that he rebuffed their attempts to be friendly. Family friend Dale Launer said that he counseled Rodger on approaching women, but that Rodger did not follow the advice; Launer also commented that when he met Rodger at eight or nine, "I could see then that there was something wrong with him ... looking back now he strikes me as someone who was broken from the moment of conception."


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Early incidents
In 2011, Rodger threw coffee on a couple he was jealous of; in another incident, he splashed coffee on two girls for not smiling at him. In 2012 Rodger used a Super Soaker filled with orange juice to spray a group playing kickball at Girsh Park.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Early incidents
Referring to an incident in July 2013, Rodger wrote that after being mocked at a party he tried but failed to shove some girls over a ten-foot ledge; instead other boys pushed him over and his ankle was injured. When he went back for his sunglasses he was again mocked, and beaten. A neighbor saw Rodger come home crying and vowing to kill the men involved and then himself. He wrote in his manifesto that the incident was the final trigger for his planning the attack.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Early incidents
In January 2014, Rodger accused Cheng Yuan Hong, one of his roommates, of stealing some candles; Hong pleaded guilty to petty theft. On April 30, Rodger's parents contacted police after becoming alarmed by his behavior and YouTube videos. Sheriff's deputies who visited Rodger determined that he did not meet the criteria for an involuntary mental health commitment; Rodger had told them he had a "misunderstanding" with his parents.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
Rodger emailed his 107,000-word manifesto, My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger, to 34 people, including his therapist, Charles Sophy, his parents and other family, former teachers, and childhood friends. In it he said he'd originally sought to carry out an attack on Halloween of 2013, but reconsidered because he thought there would be too many police present.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
In his last YouTube video, "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", Rodger complained of being rejected by women and envying sexually active men, and described his planned attack and the motives behind it. In the video, he says:


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you. For the last eight years of my life, ever since I hit puberty, I've been forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me. Girls gave their affection, and sex and love to other men but never to me. I'm 22 years old and I'm still a virgin. I've never even kissed a girl.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
I've been through college for two and a half years, more than that actually, and I'm still a virgin. It has been very torturous. College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. Within those years, I've had to rot in loneliness. It's not fair. You girls have never been attracted to me. I don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It's an injustice, a crime, because ... I don't know what you don't see in me. I'm the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
He wrote in My Twisted World that being of mixed race made him "different from the normal fully white kids". On one online forum, he said that he opposed interracial dating and made several racist posts regarding African-American, Hispanic, South Asian and East Asian people, stating that seeing men of these ethnic groups socializing with white women "makes you want to quit life". In one online post, Rodger wrote:


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
Full Asian men are disgustingly ugly and white girls would never go for you. You're just butthurt that you were born as an Asian piece of shit, so you lash out by linking these fake pictures. You even admit that you wish you were half white. You'll never be half-white and you'll never fulfill your dream of marrying a white woman. I suggest you jump off a bridge.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
In his manifesto, Rodger made a racist comment regarding another boy, outlining some of his plans:


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. On the day before the Day of Retribution, I will start the First Phase of my vengeance: Silently killing as many people as I can around Isla Vista by luring them into my apartment through some form of trickery.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
A "War on Women" was the second phase of his plan:


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
The Second Phase will take place on the Day of Retribution itself, just before the climactic massacre ... My War on Women ... I will attack the very girls who represent everything I hate in the female gender: The hottest sorority of UCSB.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
Rodger stated in his manifesto that, in his ideal world, he would "quarantine all [women] in concentration camps. At these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death. That would be an efficient and fitting way to kill them all off ... I would have an enormous tower built just for myself ... and gleefully watch them all die." He also dreamed of "a pure world, [where] the man's mind can develop to greater heights than ever before.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Manifesto and online posts
Future generations will live their lives free of having to worry about the barbarity of sex and women, which will enable them to expand their intelligence and advance the human race to a state of perfect civilization." He said that he planned to kill his half-brother and stepmother, but was not mentally prepared to kill his father.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Preparations
In September 2012, Rodger visited a shooting range to practice firing handguns. In November, he purchased his first handgun, a Glock 34 pistol, in Goleta, choosing it as "an efficient and highly accurate weapon". In early 2013, Rodger bought two additional handguns, both SIG Sauer P226 pistols, writing that they were "of a much higher quality than the Glock" and "a lot more efficient". He purchased the weapons legally in Oxnard and Burbank, California.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Perpetrator, Preparations
Rodger claimed to have saved at least $6,000, which was given to him by his parents and grandmothers, in order to purchase the weapons and supplies for the attacks. Gun law experts in California have said that there was nothing in Rodger's known history that prevented him from making legal firearm purchases.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Attacks
Rodger began his attacks at his apartment on Seville Road, where he killed three men by stabbing them multiple times. Bloodstains later found in the building's hallway suggest that Rodger had attacked one or more of his victims as they entered; a bloody bath towel and paper towels in the bathroom suggest Rodger had attempted to clean the hallway. The men's positions suggested that each was killed separately as he entered. Two of the victims were confirmed to be Rodger's roommates according to an apartment lease, while police were investigating whether the third was also a resident or visiting the apartment on the night of the killings.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Attacks
After the stabbings, Rodger purchased coffee at a coffee shop. At around 8:30 p.m., he was seen working on his laptop in his car in the parking lot of his apartment building. He uploaded his "Retribution" video at 9:17 and sent his manifesto e-mail at 9:18. After receiving a copy of the manifesto, Rodger's therapist phoned his mother, who – finding the "Retribution" video on Rodger's YouTube channel – contacted Rodger's father. In separate cars, his parents left Los Angeles for Santa Barbara, calling Isla Vista police en route.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Attacks
Rodger drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house at Embarcadero del Norte and Segovia Road near UCSB, where he knocked on the front door for a few minutes then began shooting people nearby. Two women were killed and a third was injured. Rodger began driving again. He fired into an unoccupied coffee shop on Pardall Road, then several times into a delicatessen; a man was struck seven times and killed.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Attacks
Rodger drove south on Embarcadero del Norte on the wrong side of the street, striking a pedestrian and firing at two people on the sidewalk, missing them. He shot a couple exiting a pizzeria and a female cyclist. He drove south on El Embarcadero and shot at and missed a woman, turned east on Del Playa Drive, and made a U-turn to drive west. He then exchanged fire with a sheriff's deputy responding to a telephone report, and struck two pedestrians.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Attacks
Turning north on Camino del Sur, Rodger shot and wounded three people at Sabado Tarde Street, and struck a skateboarder and two cyclists with his car. Turning east on Sabado Tarde, he struck another skateboarder with his car and shot two other men at the intersection with Camino Pescadero. On Sabado Tarde near Little Acorn Park, Rodger exchanged gunfire with three sheriff's deputies, and was shot in the hip. Pursued by police, he turned south a second time onto El Embarcadero, then west again on Del Playa. He struck a cyclist, then crashed on the north sidewalk just east of the intersection of Del Playa and Camino Pescadero.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Attacks
At 9:35, police found Rodger dead inside his car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. In the car were three pistols, knives, six empty ten-round magazines, and 548 rounds of unspent ammunition.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Victims
All six murder victims were students at UCSB. The men killed at Rodger's apartment were George Chen (Chinese: 陳喬治; pinyin: Chén Qiáozhì), 19; Chengyuan "James" Hong (Chinese: 洪晟元; pinyin: Hóng Chéngyuán), 20; and Weihan "David" Wang (Chinese: 王偉漢; pinyin: Wáng Wěihàn), 20. The three who died from gunshot wounds were Katherine Breann Cooper, 22; Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20; and Veronika Elizabeth Weiss, 19. Cooper and Weiss were the women killed outside the Alpha Phi sorority house, while Michaels-Martinez was the victim inside the Isla Vista Deli Mart.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Victims
Fourteen other people were injured; seven from gunshot wounds and seven by blunt trauma sustained when Rodger struck them with his vehicle. Eleven of the injured were taken to hospitals. Seven went to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where two were admitted in serious condition, one in fair condition, and two others in good condition, and one patient was released on the same day. The remaining four injured were taken to Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, where they were all treated and released.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
The attacks renewed calls for gun control and improvements in the US health care system, with Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal saying,


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
A year and half ago it seemed like we were on the verge of, potentially, legislation that would stop the madness and end the insanity that has killed too many young people, thousands, tens of thousands since Sandy Hook. I hope, I really, sincerely hope that this tragedy, this unimaginable, unspeakable tragedy, will provide impetus to bring back measures that would keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are severely troubled or deranged like this young man was.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
California Senator Dianne Feinstein blamed the National Rifle Association's "stranglehold" on gun laws for the attack and said "shame on us" in Congress for failing to do something about it. Pennsylvania Congressman Timothy F. Murphy, a clinical psychologist, said his bipartisan mental health overhaul would be a solution and urged Congress to pass it.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
Richard Martinez, the father of victim Christopher Michaels-Martinez, gave a speech in which he placed the blame of the attacks on "craven, irresponsible" politicians and the National Rifle Association. Martinez later urged the public to join him in "demanding immediate action" from members of Congress regarding gun control. He also expressed his sympathy towards Rodger's parents.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
Doris A. Fuller, the executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, said that California law permitted emergency psychiatric evaluations of potentially dangerous individuals through provisions, but such actions were never enabled during the initial police investigation of Rodger. She said,


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
Once again, we are grieving over deaths and devastation caused by a young man who was sending up red flags for danger that failed to produce intervention in time to avert tragedy. In this case, the red flags were so big the killer's parents had called police ... and yet the system failed.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Gun control and mental health
Some California lawmakers called for an investigation into the deputies' contact with Rodger on April 30, at which time the California gun ownership database reflected the fact that Rodger had bought at least two handguns. Deputies did not check the database, nor did they view the YouTube videos that had prompted Rodger's parents to contact them. In September 2014 California legislators passed a "red flag law" to enable judges to have guns seized from persons who are a danger to themselves or to others.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
The attack sparked discussion of broader issues of violence against women and misogyny. Rodger frequented online forums such as PUAHate and ForeverAlone, where he and other men posted misogynistic statements, and described himself online as an "incel" – a member of an online subculture based around its members' perceived inability to find a romantic or sexual partner. Rodger wrote that after purchasing his first gun he "felt a new sense of power. I was now armed. Who's the alpha male now, bitches? I thought to myself, regarding all of the girls who've looked down on me in the past."


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
He also described his plan to invade a sorority house, writing, "I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up, blond slut I see inside there. All those girls I've desired so much. They have all rejected me and looked down on me as an inferior man." According to the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at the Hague, the attacks were an act of misogynist terrorism.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
Writer Mary Elizabeth Williams objected to Rodger being labeled the "virgin killer", saying that implies that "one possible cause of male aggression is a lack of female sexual acquiescence". Amanda Hess, writing for Slate, argued that although Rodger killed more men than women, his motivations were misogynistic because his reason for hating the men he attacked was that he thought they stole the women he felt entitled to. Writing for Reason, Cathy Young countered with "that seems like a good example of stretching the concept into meaninglessness – or turning it into unfalsifiable quasi-religious dogma" and wrote that Rodger also wrote many hateful messages about other men.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
In Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny feminist academic Kate Manne analyzed the many arguments presented by Young, Heather Mac Donald, and other media commentators to the effect that Rodger could not have been a misogynist because (among other reasons) he was sexually attracted to women, his hateful rhetoric was ultimately the result of mental illness, Rodger loved his mother and hence did not evince a psychological hatred of all women, and he murdered more men than women as an example of a no true Scotsman fallacy.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
In contrast to a narrow definition of misogyny requiring generalized hatred of women with few (or no) exceptions, similar to the virulent antisemitism of Nazi Germany, Manne argued that in practice misogynists tend to selectively target women based on real or imagined violations of patriarchal norms, and that an excessively narrow conception of misogyny "threaten[s] to deprive women of a suitable name for a potentially potent problem facing them."


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
Following the attacks, some on Twitter used the #NotAllMen hashtag to express that not all men are misogynistic and not all men commit murder. Others criticized use of this hashtag, as it was considered to derail from discussion of the issue of violence against women. Someone created the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen on May 24 to express the idea that all women experience misogyny and sexism.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
In some incel communities, it is common for posts to glorify violence by self-identified incels. Rodger is the most frequently referenced, with incels often referring to him as their "saint" and sharing memes in which his face has been superimposed onto paintings of Christian icons. Some incels consider him to be the true progenitor of today's online incel communities. It is common to see references to "E.R." in incel forums, and mass violence by incels is regularly referred to as "going E.R." Rodger has been referenced by the perpetrators or suspected perpetrators of several other mass killings.


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Misogyny
For example, Alek Minassian, who killed 10 and injured 16 in Toronto, Canada, posted on Facebook before the murders: "Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!"


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Controversy over publication of Rodger's videos and manifesto
Several news networks limited the use of the "Retribution" video posted by Rodger for fear of triggering copycat crimes. The New Statesman posited that the manifesto may influence a "new generation of 'involuntary celibates'".


2014 Isla Vista killings, Aftermath, Memorial services
Students and community members gathered at Anisq'Oyo Park in Isla Vista on the evening of May 24 for a candlelight memorial to remember the victims. 20,000 people attended a memorial service at UCSB's Harder Stadium on May 27. On May 23, 2015, the first anniversary of the attacks, hundreds of people gathered at UCSB for a candlelight vigil commemorating the six slain victims. The mother of George Chen made a speech at the event.


2014 Isle of Man TT
The 2014 Isle of Man TT Festival was held between Saturday 24 May and Friday 6 June 2014 on the 37.73-mile Isle of Man TT Mountain Course. The main races were six solo motorcycle races and two sidecar races. The festival also included Pre-TT Classic Races held on 23, 24 & 26 May 2014 at the Billown Circuit in Castletown. Post-TT races scheduled for 7 June 2014 were cancelled by race organisers on safety grounds due to a thunderstorm and heavy overnight rain.


2014 Isle of Man TT
The blue ribbon event of the 2014 races, the Senior TT, was won by Michael Dunlop marking the 75th Anniversary of the only solo TT race victory by a factory BMW Motorrad machine ridden by Georg Schorsch Meier during the 1939 500 cc Senior Isle of Man TT Race.


2014 Isle of Man TT
The 2014 TT races were again dominated by Michael Dunlop, repeating his 2013 IOM TT feat of winning four races within a week, riding a 1000 cc BMW in the Superbike TT and Superstock TT classes and a 600 cc Honda in Supersport TT Race 2. The 2014 Joey Dunlop TT Championship was won for the second consecutive year by Michael Dunlop with 116 points, with Bruce Anstey having 82 points and Dean Harrison in third place scoring 54 points. Michael Dunlop also scored a Junior/Senior TT double win during the 2014 TT Races raising his tally of Isle of Man TT race wins to 11 victories and 1 Classic TT win.


2014 Isle of Man TT
Gary Johnson won the Supersport TT Race 1 riding a three-cylinder 675 cc Triumph at an average race speed of 124.526 mph, the first victory by a British machine since Bruce Anstey, also on a Triumph, won the 2003 600 cc Junior TT Race. The 2014 TT Zero Race was won by John McGuinness at a race-average speed of 117.366 mph, raising his tally of Isle of Man TT race wins to 21, the first win in the TT electric motorcycle category for the Shinden San / Mugen factory team.


2014 Isle of Man TT
The Sidecar TT produced another maiden winner, with Race 1 being won by Conrad Harrison/Mike Aylott on a Shelbourne Honda 600 cc	outfit at a race-average speed of 113.987 mph. The Lightweight TT Race also produced another maiden winner in Dean Harrison, after race favourite and fastest in practice Ivan Lintin retired on lap 1 at Union Mills with an electrical problem. With his father Conrad Harrison winning the Sidecar Race 1 and Dean Harrison's Lightweight win this was the first occasion of father/son winners in different classes of during the same race week.


2014 Isle of Man TT
The Sidecar TT Race 2 was won by Dave Molyneux/Patrick Farrance riding a 600 cc DMR Kawasaki outfit at a race-average speed of 113.147 mph, raising his TT wins to 17. Molyneux also celebrated the 25th anniversary of his first win in the 1989 Isle of Man TT Sidecar Race 'A' with passenger Colin Hardman at an average race speed of 104.56 mph.


2014 Isle of Man TT
A new outright course lap record was set by Bruce Anstey, with a time of 17 minutes, 06.682 seconds at an average speed of 132.298 mph during lap 6 of the 2014 Superbike TT Race. A further race lap record was set by Michael Dunlop, recording a new class record for the Senior TT class of 17 minutes, 11.591 seconds, at an average speed of 131.668 mph.


2014 Isle of Man TT
The Vernon Cooper Trophy for Fastest Newcomer was won by Peter Hickman, riding a 1000 cc BMW, during lap 6 of the Senior TT with a time of 17 minutes, 32.078 seconds at an average speed of 129.104 mph. After completing a number of practice laps, Mark Higgins broke his own car record for the Snaefell Mountain Course driving a 2015 Subaru WRX STI with a lap time of 19 minutes, 15.88 at an average speed of 117.510 miles per hour (189.114 km/h)


2014 Isle of Man TT
The 2014 TT Festival held a Lap of Honour of the Snaefell Mountain Course in memory of Simon Andrews who earlier had suffered a fatal crash during the 1000 cc Superstock event of the 2014 North West 200 races in May. A fatal accident to veteran Manx Grand Prix and TT competitor Bob Price occurred at Ballaugh Bridge during the Supersport TT Race 1. Former British Supersport champion Karl Harris crashed fatally at the 26th Milestone while competing in the Superstock TT Race.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Practice Week
As with the 2013 Isle of Man TT races, the first part of the 2014 Practice Week was again dominated by inclement weather with the first evening session on Saturday 24 May cancelled due to heavy rain and mist on the Mountain Section of the course. The Tuesday evening practice was curtailed after an incident at Kerrowmoar with a sidecar outfit. The Wednesday session on the 28 May held in cloudy and overcast conditions was red-flagged due to an incident at Barregarrow after the solo competitors had completed only one lap.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Practice Week
The rest of the Wednesday evening session was cancelled after rainfall returned to the northern sections of the Snaefell Mountain Course. The Sidecar class started the Thursday evening session before being red-flagged after 20 minutes due to a civilian medical emergency in the Quarterbridge area of Douglas. After the practice session was restarted, the start of the practice for solos was again delayed due to another incident with a sidecar outfit at Pinfold Cottage near Ramsey. In contrast, the Friday evening practice session was held in good weather and a number of solo competitors completing five laps of the Mountain Course.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Superbike TT final standings.
31 May 2014 6 Laps (226.38 Miles) TT Mountain Course.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Superbike TT final standings.
Fastest Lap and New Overall Course Record: Bruce Anstey – 132.298 mph (212.913 km/h) (17' 06.682) on lap 6.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Sidecar TT Race 1 TT final standings
Fastest Lap: Dave Molyneux / Patrick Farrance – 115.538 mph (185.940 km/h) (19' 35.612) on lap 2.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Supersport Junior TT Race 1
Fastest Lap: Gary Johnson – 126.732 mph (203.955 km/h) (17' 51.711) on lap 2.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Superstock TT final standings.
Fastest Lap: Michael Dunlop – 129.778 mph (208.857 km/h) (17' 26.621) on lap 2.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 TT Zero Race
Fastest Lap and New Race Record: John McGuinness – 117.366 mph (188.882 km/h) (19' 17.366) on lap 1.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Supersport Junior TT Race 2
Fastest Lap: Michael Dunlop – 127.403 mph (205.035 km/h) (17' 46.129) on lap 2.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Sidecar TT Race 2 TT final standings
Fastest Lap: Dave Molyneux / Patrick Farrance – 113.756 mph (183.073 km/h) (19' 54.027) on lap 3.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Lightweight TT 650cc Super-Twin
Fastest Lap: Keith Amor – 118.989 mph (191.494 km/h) (19' 01.514) on lap 3.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Senior TT final standings.
6 June 2014 6 Laps – (226.38 Miles) Mountain Course.


2014 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2014 Senior TT final standings.
Fastest Lap and New Class Record: Michael Dunlop – 131.668 mph (211.899 km/h) (17' 11.591) on lap 2.


2014 Islington London Borough Council election
The 2014 Islington Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Islington Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 Islington London Borough Council election
The final result was 47 seats for the Labour Party and 1 seat for the Green Party of England and Wales. The Labour Party received 56 per cent of the vote, its highest total in Islington since 1974. The Liberal Democrats lost all its seats despite having controlled the Council as a minority administration from 2006–2010.


2014 Israeli Basketball League Cup
The 2014 Israeli Basketball League Cup was the 9th edition of the Israeli Basketball League Cup pre-season tournament. Hapoel Jerusalem won its third League Cup title.


2014 Israeli Beach Soccer League
The 2014 Israeli Beach Soccer League was a national beach soccer league that took place between 13 June and 25 July 2014, in Netanya, Israel.


2014 Israeli Beach Soccer League, Group stage
All kickoff times are of local time in Netanya, Israel (UTC+02:00).


2014 Israeli oil spill
In December 2014, a major oil spill occurred in the vicinity of Be'er Ora Israel, with an estimated 3-5 million liters of crude oil leaking from a breached pipeline, contaminating much of the Evrona nature reserve. An Environmental Protection Ministry official stated that the cleanup would likely take years, and that the spill was one of the gravest natural disasters in the country's history.


2014 Israeli oil spill
In light of this, On December 9, 2014, Ofir Akunis was appointed deputy environmental protection minister. Akunis replaced Amir Peretz, who resigned from his post at the helm of the ministry. The appointment, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, came a week after the massive crude oil spill in Israel's Arava region. Akunis said that "it is the deputy minister's intention to prioritize treatment of the ecological disaster in the south and to do all that is necessary to prevent the spread of the crude oil, and to prevent a health and environmental disaster."


2014 Israeli oil spill
Akunis ordered crews to raise the side walls of the dams that had been built in the Arava to prevent flooding. Thanks to the infrastructure that had already been built in the area, the risk that the oil would reach the Gulf of Eilat significantly dropped. Akunis instructed that the reserve remain closed as long as high values of pollutants were still registered in air quality tests.


2014 Israeli oil spill
In the end of December 2014, the government approved a NIS 17 million Environmental Protection Ministry plan to rehabilitate. According to Akunis, the NIS 17 million program will serve to treat the soils contaminated by the spill as well as help restore the wildlife populations damaged over the course of the event. As part of the plan, a special team will be appointed to evaluate the environmental impact of various Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company activities on both dry land and beaches. The approved plan also involves opening a closed Eilat beach on EAPC-owned property to the city's residents and visitors. In January 2015, air quality tests found that there had been a 90% reduction of pollution in Evrona.


2014 Israeli presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Israel on 10 June 2014. The result was a victory for Reuven Rivlin of the Likud party. Rivlin was sworn in as President of Israel on 24 July.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Background
In November 2013, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ruled that candidates for the office of President would be barred from raising funds to finance their campaigns.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Background
In January 2014, incumbent President Shimon Peres announced that he would not run for a second term, despite an opinion poll showing 63% of Israelis would prefer him to remain in office. A second term would require change in legislation, as the Basic Law on the presidency permits only one term, following reforms made after the 1998 presidential election to prevent an incumbent being challenged for the presidency.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Candidates
In 2012, an agreement was made between Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Rivlin would be the party's candidate for the election if Likud won the 2013 Knesset election. Likud subsequently emerged with a parliamentary plurality. However, in February 2014 The Jerusalem Post reported that both Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, a major power in the Likud party, had a poor relationship with Rivlin and had not ruled out backing another candidate.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Candidates
In February 2014, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer of the Labor Party became the first candidate to receive the required 10 nominations from Knesset members. Four days before the election, Ben-Eliezer was investigated by the police on corruption charges and subsequently withdrew from the race.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Candidates
Other candidates included Nobel Prize laureate Dan Shechtman, Meir Sheetrit of Hatnuah, Dalia Itzik of Kadima, and former Supreme Court judge Dalia Dorner. Potential candidates who expressed an interest in running but did not receive the written support from ten members of the Knesset needed for nomination included Uzi Landau of Yisrael Beiteinu, Silvan Shalom of Likud, and businessman Yosef Abramowitz.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Opinion polls
Although the public were not able to vote in the election, opinion polls were conducted to determine public support for the candidates.


2014 Israeli presidential election, Results
Only 119 votes were cast, as one member of the Knesset, Meir Porush, was abroad.


2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters
The 2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters were seven shellings at UNRWA facilities in the Gaza Strip which took place between 21 July and 3 August 2014 during the Israeli-Gaza conflict. The incidents were the result of artillery, mortar or aerial missile fire which struck on or near the UNRWA facilities being used as shelters for Palestinians, and as a result at least 44 civilians, including 10 UN staff, died. During the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, many Palestinians fled their homes after warnings by Israel or due to air strikes or fighting in the area. An estimated 290,000 people (15% of Gaza's population) took shelter in UNRWA schools.


2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters
On three separate occasions, on 16 July, 22 July and on 29 July, UNRWA announced that rockets had been found in their schools. UNRWA denounced the groups responsible for "flagrant violations of the neutrality of its premises". All of these schools were vacant at the time when rockets were discovered; no rockets were found in any shelters which were shelled. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that "Hamas chooses where these battles are conducted and, despite Israel's best efforts to prevent civilian casualties, Hamas is ultimately responsible for the tragic loss of civilian life. Specifically in the case of UN facilities, it is important to note the repeated abuse of UN facilities by Hamas, namely with at least three cases of munitions storage within such facilities."


2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters
The attacks were condemned by members of the UN (UNRWA's parent organization) and other governments, such as the U.S., have expressed "extreme concern" over the safety of Palestinian civilians who "are not safe in UN-designated shelters." The Rafah shelling in particular was widely criticized, with Ban Ki-moon calling it a "moral outrage and a criminal act" and US State Department calling it "appalling" and "disgraceful". UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said that both Hamas militants and Israel might have committed war crimes.


2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters
A Human Rights Watch investigation into three of the incidents concluded that Israel committed war crimes because two of the shellings "did not appear to target a military objective or were otherwise indiscriminate", while the third Rafah shelling was "unlawfully disproportionate". On 27 April 2015, the United Nations released an inquiry which concluded that Israel was responsible for the deaths of at least 44 Palestinians who died in the shelling and 227 were injured.


2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters, Background
Since the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza, Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have launched rockets into Israel as part of the Gaza–Israel conflict. Gaza militants operate in civilian areas, draw return fire to civilian structures, and on some level benefit in the diplomatic arena from the rising casualties. Through the years, Israel has accused Hamas of launching rockets from schools, residential buildings, mosques and hospitals and Hamas has repeatedly been accused of using civilians as a human shields.