STILL searching for those green shoots of recovery the economists have promised? Be alert, then, as the cameras pan out into the stands at the Stade de France tonight.

TOPFLIGHT, which has been voted Ireland’s Best Ski tour operator for the 14th successive year, has a new winter ski brochure.

IT’S BACK — and if this year is anything to go by, it’s back with a bang.

MUNSTER’S next European destination, Geneva, is bracing itself for the mother of all invasions as the Red Army gears itself up for its historic first Heineken pool match in the Swiss Alpine city on Sunday.

Leinster will bring more than 3,000 supporters to Toulouse's 37,000-capacity Stade Municipal for the Heineken Cup quarter-final on April 1.

HEINEKEN CUP rugby could be on its way to Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney.

SPREAD the word - golf has suddenly become cool.