UCD 0-17 Athlone IT 2-7

Like Joe Kernan smashing his All-Ireland losers’ medal off the Croke Park dressing-room wall in 2002, it will go down as one of the iconic managerial interventions.

Forty-five years since its maiden outing, the HSE Community Games continues to capture the imagination of the Irish sporting public.

A remarkable opening day for Ireland at the European Indoor Athletics Championships was narrowly denied a golden finish when Derval O’Rourke was edged out into fourth in the final of the women’s 60 metres hurdles.

DIT footballer Alan Nestor has apologised for posing naked with the Sigerson Cup following their weekend final triumph over UCC.

A strong team of 11 has named to represent Ireland at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, which get underway in Gothenburg on Friday.

Dublin Institute of Technology 3-8 University College Cork 0-7

DIT and UCC booked their places in tomorrow's Sigerson Cup Final at 3pm in Athlone IT following semi-final wins over DCU and AIT respectively this afternoon.

Crossmaglen Rangers players Aaron Kernan and Jamie Clarke have been named in the Ulster team for Sunday's M Donnelly Interprovincial Football final against Leinster at Croke Park (throw-in 3.45pm).

Like most sports journalists, this columnist served an apprenticeship that called for a frequent presence at games where press facilities amounted to a spot inside rather than outside the rails and the height of any literary ambition was being able to read your notes as the rain sent the ink trickling down the page.

An Irish team of eight, headed by double European Cross-Country Champion Fionnuala Britton and Europe’s fastest man over 400m this year so far, Brian Gregan, have been pre-selected for next week’s European Indoor Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.

Sigerson Cup quarter-final: DCU 2-10 UCD 0-6

The Woodie’s DIY AAI Games in the new Athlone IT indoor arena produced a long list of new personal bests and one new record.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny will officially open the engineering and informatics building at Athlone IT this afternoon.

An investigation has today been launched into a brawl in Athlone which left a man in his 20s with serious facial injuries.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI took a trip down memory lane yesterday when he travelled to Athlone IT to open a new football pitch.

JASON RYAN regretfully shut the door on hopes of a Matty Forde retirement u-turn after witnessing Wexford’s second massive defeat in a week.

A DOUBLE-JOBBING college lecturer has been blocked from claiming two pensions after concern was raised over lax governance standards in the third-level system.

More than 2,500 children from all over the country are taking part in the final weekend of the Community Games in Athlone IT.

DESSIE DOLAN has pleaded with the government not to dispense with the players’ grants this year.

MARCO TARDELLI will swap the Irish dugout for the red and black of Longford Town when he plays in this evening’s Sean Prunty Testimonial game at Flancare Park.

A man in his 20s is in a critical condition in hospital after he was hit by a car in Athlone overnight.

A SERIAL sex attacker is believed to be on the loose in Athlone after a third violent sexual assault on female victims at the same location inside eight weeks.

THE powerful Russians will visit Ireland a the end of the month to box two internationals, one at the National Stadium on April 27 and the other at Athlone IT on April 29.

HEROIN can be obtained easily in Athlone and Portlaoise for €25 a bag, according to a report published yesterday.

TIPPERARY hurling selector Colm Bonnar will sit out Sunday's NHL clash with Clare as he awaits the outcome of his appeal to the GAC against an eight week touchline ban.

UCC 0-19, Limerick IT 1-11

Cork CFE 2-11, Sligo IT 2-8