ALAN QUINLAN’S Lions dreams were left hanging by a thread last night as the ERC confirmed the Munster flanker will face an Independent Disciplinary Committee hearing following an alleged eye-gouging incident during the second half of Saturday’s Heineken Cup semi-final.

Toulouse player Trevor Brennan has lodged an appeal against his lifetime ban imposed by the Independent Disciplinary Committee.

Leinster's Wallaby World Cup winner Owen Finegan has been suspended for three weeks from today.

Leinster's Owen Finegan has been cited by match commissioner John Byett for an incident that occurred during the Heineken Cup tie at Edinburgh on Sunday.

Biarritz and France loose forward Serge Betsen emerged from his citing charge today for an alleged pre-meditated trip on London Wasps’ Stuart Abbott in the Heineken Cup without a suspension.

Munster prop Marcus Horan has been exonerated and vindicated in the tit-for-tat citing exchange that followed the Heineken Cup meeting of Munster and Neath-Swansea Ospreys at The Gnoll last Sunday week.