SOME 6,000 questions have been written and 170 schools are waiting to do battle in the Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) schools quiz.

NICOLAS ROCHE, whose illustrious father Stephen won the world title as part of his triple crown in 1987, will get the Irish interest underway when he goes in the 30.8k U-23 individual time trial at the world cycling championships in Hamilton, Ontario, today.

STEPHEN O’SULLIVAN (Cycleways Lee Strand) won his first national senior title in the All-Ireland Criterium Championship around the famed Monaghan Road circuit in Cork yesterday.

IT will be a real battle of wits between North and South tonight when two secondary schools go head-to-head in the grand final of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz.

A phenomenal 136 entries have been received for the inaugural Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz.