DIFFERENT year, same old story. This time 12 months ago, Leinster spent the week prior to their historic Heineken Cup semi-final against Munster at Croke Park hands pressed tightly to their ears against the choruses of doom and gloom.

Anguished Argentinian families struggled today to identify bodies and plan funerals for relatives killed in a Buenos Aires nightclub fire that killed at least 186 people and injured more than 700.