CESC FABREGAS inspired Arsenal to a Champions League thrashing of Braga as the Gunners opened their Group H campaign with a 6-0 win at the Emirates Stadium and then warned of tougher battles to come.

THE mother of a Polish teenager has joined the search for her only son who has been missing, presumed drowned, off the West Cork coast.

THE GRIEVING wife of a Polish man who drowned with his only son off the Cork coast last week has asked for prayers that her son’s body will be found.

INTERNAL rows and personal bickering remain an entertaining sideshow but with just over 17 months to go before the 2006 World Cup in Germany there is barely a hint of trouble on the organisational front.