The power struggle which is threatening the future of the Heineken Cup will be top of the agenda when Rugby Football Union officials meet with Aviva Premiership club representatives today.

For a full week they looked on, as their disputed dirty linen was aired in public, but the continent’s rugby powerbrokers kept their laundry in-house yesterday after taking the first, tentative steps towards a new accord for the European game’s club tournaments.

The future of the Heineken Cup remains in doubt after a five-hour meeting in Dublin broke up today without a resolution.

After weeks of posturing over the future of the Heineken Cup, European Rugby stakeholders will all meet face to face for the first time in a Dublin hotel today to begin thrashing out a way forward for the continent’s premier club competition.

They’re at it again!

France’s Top 14 clubs are demanding a swift resolution to the schism that threatens the future of European rugby.

BT Vision boss Marc Watson has revealed plans for “a dazzling new European tournament” that will inevitably cast huge uncertainty over the Heineken Cup’s future.

Fears that media giants BSkyB and BT overpaid in their £3bn (€3.7bn) Premier League deal sent shares in the pair sharply lower today.

UK-headquartered telecoms giant BT posted better-than-expected quarterly profits today with the number of broadband customers surging as they took up superfast connections.

BT today said the proportion of new broadband customers using its own service hit an eight-year high in the final three months of last year as profits at the telecoms giant exceeded half a billion pounds.

BT will offer its UK customers more live Premier League football next season after it signed a contract with BSkyB for the supply of two Sky Sports channels.

The Irish Football Association remains quietly confident that the Setanta Sports Cup will go ahead as scheduled despite the broadcaster’s financial troubles.

STRUGGLING broadcaster Setanta yesterday issued their first statement since their cash crisis began, confirming that company chiefs are still trying to secure a rescue package.

Struggling broadcaster Setanta today issued their first statement since their cash crisis began, confirming that company chiefs are still trying to secure a rescue package.

Setanta today confirmed they have suspended any new subscriptions from their sports services but insisted efforts to avoid administration are still continuing.

Setanta suffered a fresh blow this morning as BT Vision suspended any further sales of Setanta Sports.

Microsoft has teamed up with BT to make television shows available via the Xbox 360.

Sports channel Setanta today secured a major funding boost ahead of its Premiership ratings battle with BSkyB next season.

Viewers of Channel 4 will be able to catch up with their favourite programmes by downloading them from the internet from today.

IRISH broadcasting giant, Setanta, has concluded a groundbreaking deal in Britain and delivered another blow to Sky Sports.

BT soared in value today as it revealed it was winning more high-tech business to offset falling revenues in traditional fixed-line telephony.

The FTSE 100 Index ended virtually where it started today in a rollercoaster session that saw traders struggle to make sense of recent batterings.

Telecoms group BT said today it was “firing on all cylinders” after increasing profits on the back of growth in demand for its new wave services.