Kilkenny were leading Tipperary by a point when Hogan made contact with the head of Cathal Barrett with a stray elbow along the Hogan Stand touchline.

A second senior director of BP’s Russian joint venture TNK-BP has quit the troubled business in less than a month, it emerged today.

Wexford dual star Redmond Barry is facing up to surgery today after he broke his jaw in Saturday's county championship tie between St Anne's and Sarsfields.

A UN-appointed expert said yesterday that he has warned Caterpillar Inc. that Israel’s use of bulldozers to destroy West Bank orchards could make the company an accomplice in what he called the violation of basic human rights of the Palestinians.