Galway 3-12 Laois 0-5

WINGER Sitivei Sivivatu, hooker Derren Witcombe and lock James Ryan will make their test debuts for New Zealand against Fiji on Friday after the trio were confirmed as starters in a new-look All Blacks side.

EIGHT newcomers have been named by the All Blacks coach Graham Henry in a bold selection policy for the upcoming European tour and a gruelling 2005 season.

THE All Blacks repeated a well-spun line in the build-up to their World Cup pool D game against Canada today.

TO SAY that this Kilkenny SHC final at Nowlan Park yesterday was the DJ Carey show would be unfair on what was a magnificent team effort by the whole of Young Irelands. And yet........