It may be the Rugby Champions Cup now, but the inaugural pool draw for the new competition will have elicited reactions that are all too familiar from the days when the tournament was known as the Heineken Cup.

Swiss police are continuing to investigate how a 45-year-old Corkman died from a stabbing in an apartment in the city of Neuchâtel.

A member of the notorious ‘Pink Panther’ jewel thief gang has escaped from a Swiss prison after accomplices rammed a gate and fired at guards.

A member of the notorious “Pink Panther” jewel thief gang has escaped from a Swiss prison after accomplices rammed a gate and fired at guards, police say.

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Republic of Ireland Under-20 manager Gerry Smith has included 10 players who were in Switzerland last week for the European Under-21 Championship qualifier in a squad of 18 for an Under-20 friendly against Italy in Tolka Park on Wednesday, October 29.

Don Givens has been handed a new two-year contract as manager of the Republic of Ireland Under-21s.

The Republic of Ireland senior squad will assemble at the Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links in Portmarnock at noon tomorrow to prepare for their vital Euro 2004 qualifier against Switzerland in Basel on Saturday.

MANCHESTER City’s rising star Stephen Elliot, who scored a hat-trick for the U21s in their recent 5-1 victory over Poland in Gdansk, retains his place in Don Given’s squad for their European Championship qualifier against Switzerland in Neuchatel this day week.

Stephen Elliott, the hat-trick hero of the Republic of Ireland’s 5 - 1 victory over Poland in Gdansk in August, retains his place in Don Givens’ squad of eighteen players he has named for the European 2004 Under-21 Championship qualifier against Switzerland in Neuchatel on Friday, October 10, 2003 (kick-off 6pm, 5pm Irish time).

The newly-crowned Miss Switzerland is to boycott the Miss World contest in Nigeria in protest at the death sentence given to a woman for having sex outside of marriage.