Continuity may be the watchword for Munster after their change of management halfway through the season but new boss Johann van Graan has told his players they are starting with a clean slate as far as he is concerned.

Chances are that as you watch Munster play Stade Francais in Paris today, the television director will cut to a camera trained on the coaches’ box at Stade Jean Bouin.

Ireland’s David Higgins has accepted full responsibility for the blunder which cost him the chance of a place in the British Open at Muirfield.

Ireland’s David Higgins has accepted full responsibility for the blunder which cost him the chance of a place in the Open Championship at Muirfield.

Waterville’s David Higgins was left ruing a bizarre mistake in a British Open Local Final qualifier at the North Berwick club after missing out in a play-off as he was carrying 15 clubs.

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IRELAND’S Damien McGrane and England’s Jamie Elson share the lead after a weather-interrupted first round of the Joburg Open yesterday.

Ireland’s Damien McGrane and England’s Jamie Elson share the clubhouse lead after a weather-interrupted first round of the Joburg Open today.

Ireland’s Damien McGrane fired an eight-under-par 63 to claim the clubhouse lead in the first round of the Joburg Open today.

IN ANY other season Padraig Harrington could be pleased with third place in his defence of the shortened Iskandar Johor Open in Malaysia.

Scotland’s George Murray needed only six holes of his third round to wipe out a four-shot deficit at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa today.

SOUTH AFRICAN Jbe Kruger took advantage of a collapse by compatriot George Coetzee to race clear in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek.

South African Jbe Kruger took advantage of a collapse by compatriot George Coetzee to race clear in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek today.

Pablo Martin’s hopes of an Alfred Dunhill Championship hat-trick lay in ruins in South Africa tonight.

MICHAEL HOEY has penned another impressive chapter in the remarkable story of Northern Irish golf after holding off illustrious compatriots Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell to win the Dunhill Links Championship.

Michael Hoey today wrote another glorious chapter in the remarkable story of Irish golf today after holding off illustrious compatriots Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell to win the Dunhill Links Championship.

Rory McIlroy today charged into the lead in the final round of the Dunhill Links Championship with a brilliant front nine of 30 at soggy St Andrews.

FOR a man who began the week with a performance that ranked as “the worst I have ever hit it as aprofessional,” Rory McIlroy left the Egyptian Open the knowledge that he is on the way back to his after finishing the tournament with his lowest score of the week, a four under par 68.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON headed for Pebble Beach lastnight insisting that he is not in panic mode about his form or his fitness ahead of the US Open.

THOMAS BJORN and Carlos Del Moral both shot rounds of 65 to share a two-shot lead at the top of the Estoril Open leaderboard at the end of the second day.

James Morrison held his nerve to complete a one-stroke victory ahead of fellow Englishman Oliver Fisher in the Madeira Islands Open today.

ENGLAND’S James Morrison holds a one-shot lead at the halfway point of the Madeira Islands Open.

England’s James Morrison holds a one-shot lead at the halfway point of the Madeira Islands Open.

Richard Fahey’s terrific run continued when he completed a 503-1 treble with Jeannie Galloway, Faithful Ruler and She’s In The Money – all three ridden by stable jockey Paul Hanagan – on the first afternoon of Ayr’s three-day Western meeting.

HE MAY not carry as high a profile as the many other New Zealanders plying their trade in professional rugby on this side of the globe but in many ways Jason Holland is as vital a cog in the Munster machine as any player or any member of the backroom staff.

A man who subjected two students to an hour long ordeal in which they were tied up and robbed in their own apartment has received a five year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Players at the World Amateur Team Championships starting in Stellenbosch on Thursday have been reminded that drug testing is to be carried out by the South African Institute for Drug-free Sport.

Unbeaten Rory McIlroy could not save Ireland from defeat in the Men's Home Internationals in Wales.

Irish champion Rory McIlroy gave his Walker Cup chances a boost when he finished third in the prestigious Lytham Trophy.

A man who committed robberies which his own defence counsel described as "chilling" will be sentenced on June 20, 2005 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Scores from the Irish Amateur Open Championship at Carton House Golf Club (O'Meara Course).

The deconstruction and reconstruction of professional rugby through technology is now a critical part of a coach’s armoury. Munster’s Alan Gaffney is no different. Declan Colley reports on the anatomy of a Heineken Cup defeat to today’s opponents Castres.

The organisers of the Heineken Cup are to consider a review of their disciplinary and citing procedures after Munster's Marcus Horan was found innocent of making racist comments in a game against Neath Swansea Ospreys on October 31.

R&A selection chairman Peter McEvoy has named an initial squad of 29 players for next August's 40th Walker Cup, to be held at the Chicago Golf Club, Illinois.

Scotland beat England 4-3 to win the European Amateur Youths’ Team Championship at the Island.

England lead the European Youths Team Championship after day two at The Island Golf Club in Dublin.

European Youths Team Championship, day one

IT’S been a Shannon trait in the All-Ireland League since its inception and thirteen years on, they’re still at it.

MUNSTER coach Alan Gaffney yesterday announced a 25 strong Munster squad from which the team to play Benetton Treviso in the Heineken European Cup at Thomond Park on Saturday will be picked tomorrow.

ONE of the more memorable aspects of Munster’s victory over Leicester in the Heineken Cup quarter-final was the impressive manner in which they prepared for the game.

WITH national champion and record-holder Paul McKee and runner-up Rob Daly opting for the 200m, bronze medallist Antoine Burke will carry Irish hopes in a star-studded 400m at the Dublin International Games tonight.