WHEN you’re the cup minnows, and Hollywood’s just over the horizon, the road turns into a dirt-track, littered with mines and moments of dread.

Alanna Diggin features in Connected on RTÉ2, which finishes its first season next Tuesday. She is 21 and lives in Tralee.

Northampton 37 Edinburgh 0

Northampton 37 Edinburgh 0

Northampton 23 Cardiff 15

PAUL DOHERTY loved “doing the lap” — a local phrase for driving around town, showing off your wheels and having the craic, mourners at his funeral heard yesterday.

A FLAT cap and a bingo book — the most fitting symbols for a quiet, country man who loved the outdoors and a game of bingo in the parish hall.

Forgiveness should be shown after a pensioner died in a road accident on his way home from bingo, his funeral heard today.

NORTHAMPTON were crowned Challenge Cup champions after surviving a ferocious assault from French bruisers Bourgoin at Twickenham Stoop last night.

NORTHAMPTON boosted their hopes of earning a quarter-final place in the Heineken Cup with a solid bonus-point triumph over struggling Borders in a match switched from storm-lashed Netherdale to Murrayfield at short notice.