HARD TO imagine, but we met someone during the week who actually spoke some sense about the free-to-air debate.

YOU MAY have noticed last week that Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan, is thinking of designating Heineken Cup games as ‘free-to-air’ events, which means that Irish viewers would be able to watch same without going through Sky and having to pay.

NOT A good day for southern reds all round, then.

PROBABLY not the week to invoke the atmosphere, even in jest, but here we like to mix it up a little.

CONTROVERSY continues to bubble, if not quite rage, following Tiger Woods’ comeback at the Augusta Masters last week.

EVERYBODY we meet this past couple of days is interested in either a) getting to San Sebastian for Munster v Biarritz in one of the Heineken Cup semi-finals or b) getting to Toulouse for Leinster v Toulouse in the other semi-final.

I’M AFRAID there’s a bit of a problem with Munster’s Heineken Cup semi-final against Biarritz, which is now slated for Sunday, May 2, in San Sebastian, in northern Spain.

WHEN you’re in a hole the best thing to do is ... stop digging.

ERICH SEGAL died recently, classics professor and author of ‘Love Story’.

IRISH rugby supporters’ long wait for the Grand Slam goes on, following the late defeat by Scotland last weekend in Cardiff.