In 2002, Roy Keane, one of Ireland's top international footballers, quit the national squad during the run-up to the World Cup after a bitter and public falling-out with coach Mick McCarthy.

Featuring a producer credit as "Commander Chapman" and liner notes in which Chapman boasted, "This record is very dear to me and my bank manager", it prompted a bitter falling-out between band and producer.

The unexpected alliance, which could provide potent support for several Assembly candidates, surfaced after a week of more subtle signs of reconciliation between the two men, who had a bitter falling-out over the selection of criminal court judges in 1995.

That same year Mildred Burke had a bitter falling-out with husband Wolfe and departed the promotion, leaving the world title vacant.

Rocky, meanwhile, was playing for fierce local rivals Melborough, after a bitter falling-out with his father over a car accident in Italy in which his mother, Penny, had been killed.

He resigned on 24 October 2007 after "a bitter falling-out with senior figures at the title's sister paper, The Guardian", and left The Observer at the end of 2007.

Williams and Disney had a bitter falling-out, resulting in Dan Castellaneta voicing the Genie role in The Return of Jafar and the Aladdin animated television series.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev confessed Soviet fault today for the bitter falling-out between Belgrade and Moscow in 1948, in a significant gesture toward Yugoslavia's Communist leadership.

A year later, an equally bitter falling-out with his youngest son, Ronald, his sole ally in the original dispute, deepened the destruction.

Later, he had a bitter falling-out with the Washington Bullets.