JERMAIN DEFOE kept Tottenham on course for Wembley and brought the curtains down on the Leeds fairytale with a hat-trick in a high-octane fourth-round FA Cup replay at Elland Road last night.

Leeds 1 Tottenham 3

Ballymena 7 Dungannon 38, Eaton Park

Dungannon 22 Cork Constitution 18

Two men entombed in an Australian gold mine for a week will probably be freed without major medical problems, a rescue official said today, as a special drill was assembled to bore through tonnes of collapsed rock.

Fiji’s army locked down its main barracks and conducted shooting practice today amid rising tensions between the military and the South Pacific country’s nationalist government.

Dungannon 17 UCD 30

FIJIAN police claimed they smashed the biggest methamphetamine lab ever uncovered in the Southern Hemisphere after seizing drugs and enough chemicals to make e450 million worth of the party drug “ice.”

Dungannon 56 Cork Con 33

Shannon have won their Div 1 clash against Dungannon by a seven-point margin.

Dungannon 15 Garryowen 13

Dungannon 26 UL Bohemians 20