MARK CARROLL, who held national records from 3,000m to 10,000m and represented Ireland on the track at every level up to and including two Olympic Games, will make a belated European cross-country championship debut in Brussels next month.

THIS All-Ireland hurling qualifier was the perfect launch of the Davy Fitzgerald management era in Waterford when a six goal blitz crushed the Glensmen and sent more than 6,000 fans home happy from Walsh Park on Saturday.

BRIAN GREGAN (St Mark’s, Tallaght) added his name to Patsy McGonagle’s 4 x 400m relay squad when he smashed the record with a run of 47.49 seconds at the Leinster Schools championships at Morton Stadium.

Waterford 3-29 Antrim 3-10

DAVID MCCARTHY (St Augustine’s, Dungarvan) and John Coghlan (Castleknock) finally cross paths tomorrow at the KitKat Irish Schools championships in Tullamore, making the 1,500m the event of the meeting.

NIALL TUOHY (Newtown School) provided the upset of the meet when he fought back in the finishing straight to edge out his training partner, David McCarthy (St Augustine’s, Dungarvan) in the senior boys’ 800m at the KitKat Munster Schools track and field championships at UL.

DAVID McCARTHY (St Augustine’s) romped away with the senior boys’ title at the KitKat Munster Schools cross-country championships in Dungarvan on Saturday.

CRAIG MURPHY might have followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, legendary Kerry All-Ireland football star Jas Murphy, were it not for the fact that one day he went for a training run with a group of athletes from Douglas Community School.

THE EU Commissioner for the Environment is investigating why this country has failed to remove all waste from, and fill in, illegal lagoons, despite being ordered to do so 13 months ago by the European Court.

DAVID McCARTHY (St Augustine’s, Dungarvan) made an impressive return to cross-country running with victory in the senior boys’ race at the Kit Kat Munster Schools Championships at St Augustine’s College on Saturday.

TRINITY College Dublin yesterday defended research into ecstasy use among its students, stressing that one would be paid to take part.

Beleaguered Antrim have made six changes and a number of positional switches as they bid to stave off relegation to the Christy Ring Cup against Laois on Saturday (Páirc Tailteann, Navan, throw-in 3.30pm).

All-Ireland champions Cork showed the gulf in class between themselves and tonight's visitors to Pairc Ui Rinn, as Joe Deane netted in their 1-19 to 1-09 Allianz NHL Division 1A defeat of the Saffrons.

WIT 1-21 Ulster Colleges 1-3

MOBILE phone ringtone, competition line, horoscope and general content provider iTouch has hit a profits groove.

TECHNOLOGY company Horizon beat market expectations yesterday as operating profits for the first half of the year increased €800,000 to €3.3 million.

PAYMENTS company Trintech beat market expectations yesterday when it announced second quarter revenues of $13.2 million (€10.9 million), a 31% increase on the same quarter last year.

Cork 5-9 Antrim 2-11

ITOUCH has cut its operating losses from £12.7 million to £6,192 in the first nine months of the year and returned its first positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation).

OVER-THE-COUNTER painkillers can turn unsuspecting users into drug addicts, according to a pharmacist leading an awareness campaign on the danger of such drugs