Glasgow Warriors 12 Leinster 6: Connacht can sleep easily this weekend after Leinster failed to knock the Galway men off their top perch in the Guinness Pro12 last night at Scotstoun with defeat to Glasgow in a match that produced not a single try.

With renewed focus on concussion, there are contrasting cultures in the northern and southern hemispheres in that the approach here is to seek ‘collisions’ while the emphasis down there is to avoid ‘contact’, writes Brendan O’Brien

Leinster’s Hayden Triggs is no household name, but the veteran Kiwi lock gave an interview yesterday that should grab everyone’s attention when admitting he is “scared” by the spike in concussions and other injuries in modern rugby.

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SMALL but perfectly formed was the verdict on the Liss Ard arts and music festival in West Cork over the weekend.

The man behind the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly phenomenon Paul Howard has gone back to his roots to finally give his obsession with the force of nature that is Roy Keane a voice — through the man’s loyal sidekick Triggs.

Football’s most famous dog has taken her final bow wow.

Her parentage was uncertain and her burying place unknown.

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SO what happens when two Irish sports stars like Derval O’Rourke and Roy Keane go head to head? Well, it turns out they get on swimmingly.

SOCCER legend Roy Keane says the All-Ireland SFC final beats anything his own game can offer after seeing his native Cork collect the Sam Maguire Cup at Croke Park on Sunday.

JUST for a moment, some footie fans thought McAteer had met his maker but as the day unfolded the identity of the victim was confirmed not as Trigger, but Triggs.

MODERN psychiatry has for some decades recognised the value of the talking cure but Roy Keane, as in so many other ways, went his own route, and recognised the value of the walking cure.

TRIGGS, football’s biggest canine celebrity, is sure to put his famous master in the shade when he makes his big screen debut this weekend.

SERENE Suffolk is no more — the Roy is back in town.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy after his holiday this week. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football.

NO ONE can surely be more pleased about Sunderland’s recent run of good form than manager Roy Keane’s worn-out old dog Triggs.

IRELAND A’S hopes of making the Churchill Cup final were left in tatters as the New Zealand Maori ran in seven tries in a one-sided contest at Sandy Park.

Sunderland boss Roy Keane learned of his side's promotion to the Barclays Premiership while out walking his dog.

ROY KEANE has revealed that his failure to settle at Celtic has convinced him his family must move lock, stock and barrel to Sunderland.

New Sunderland boss Roy Keane hopes a little of the late Brian Clough’s “genius” has rubbed off on him.

He’s back and raring to go! The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is kicking off the 2006-2007 season with fire in his belly and a new pair of shinpads.

THREE DAYS after he brutally jettisoned Roy Keane, Alex Ferguson has admitted Manchester United’s lack of experience is a major handicap to their dreams of Champions League glory.

Test places are up for grabs today as the battered British and Irish Lions take on second-division provincial side Manawatu.

MORE than 40 angry Aghada and Rostellan residents protested outside Cork County Hall yesterday against plans to build a second waste treatment plant in their region.

ROY KEANE proved his bark is worse than his bite yesterday as he hinted at regrets over his decision to quit international football.

Roy Keane has blamed his team-mates’ passion for "Rolexes, cars and mansions" on Manchester United’s failure to win a trophy last season.