Three things were lost in Aughrim on Saturday when Waterford travelled to take on Wicklow in the first round of the football qualifiers.

Drama. Controversy. Finger-pointing.

“It’s a great night for us, the pressure is off, and from now on we will be able to hurl with freedom and without fear,” were Dromina coach Gary Morrissey’s words of praise after his side scraped past Dripsey in round three of the IHC in Kanturk on Saturday night.

Cunningham has just completed a Sport and Recreation college course.

Pat Smullen will ride Born To Sea in Saturday’s Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh, with the colt sporting a first-time hood.

Feta cheese, Swiss funds, and Greek business. A different type of Eurovision contest was under way yesterday with the yes and no sides throwing all sorts of ingredients into the EU treaty debate while singing from different hymn sheets.

IN 2005, Galway theatre company, Druid, revived six works by the Irish playwright JM Synge.

Before kick off, you could be pretty sure that Cork City would have taken a draw with reigning Airtricity League champions Shamrock Rovers.

A brilliant double save from a second-half penalty by Chris Bennion denied St Patrick’s top spot in the Airtricity Premier Division on a night of high drama by the Camac.

SCRUM

David Luiz has responded to Chelsea’s dramatic Champions League victory by claiming that Andre Villas-Boas should not have been sacked before the London side’s 4-1 win over Napoli on Wednesday night.

WE always blame childhood.

CAN music, singing, story-telling and dance help those with mental health problems? Yes they can, according to musician and psychiatric nurse Kevin O’Shanahan.

Robbie Power was over 15 lengths behind Finian’s Rainbow and Sizing Europe by the time they breasted the line in yesterda’s Queen Mother Champion Chase.

They may have finished the game with 13 men but Kerry still produced a controlled performance to arrest their recent run of underage defeats to Tipperary in last night’s Cadbury’s Munster U21FC quarter-final in Semple Stadium.

Stand-in Ireland forwards coach, Anthony Foley, says everyone involved with the team is sick and tired of having to put up with poor refereeing.

I DO not wish to belabour my readers on the theme of fruit bats, but when one sees them in sixes and sevens against the night sky, as big as egrets and flying with the same, slow wing-beats as herons, they warrant a few lines.

Despite dominating proceedings from the outset, defending champions Nemo Rangers were left clinging onto a two-point lead at the end of this City U21 football final in Ballinlough yesterday.

When the final whistle sounded, Wexford supporters paused before a huge cheer greeted their dramatic comeback having pulled off one of the great escapes at Wexford Park yesterday.

Wexford will surely not have an easier outing this year than their visit to O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday.