UL Eagles were crowned cup champions after defeating UCC Demons in a thrilling final at the National Basketball Arena last night.

As far as Rory Best is concerned, revenge is a dish best served at home.

One thing players can’t throw at referee Alain Rolland — what would you know, you never even played the game. The former scrum-half talks Warburton, crooked scrums and respect with his former international colleague.

The eve of the championship. Whichever sport is your passion, the coming of a new season is a heady mix of emotions.

They may be the new boys in the Six Nations coaching club but for Philippe Saint-André, Jacques Brunel and Stuart Lancaster that is where the similarities end.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

HAVE I met Kate?” asks Jane Shepherdson, CEO of Whistles, pioneer of the vastly improved high street shopping experience.

There were disgraceful scenes at the end of a Sigerson Cup match in Galway yesterday after a referee was accosted before a mob of angry players raced to his dressing room and tried to confront him.

The way he has Crossmaglen Rangers playing should surprise no one who has ever known him.

Over the last 25 years the Government sells off State-owned land and buildings that realise money in the short term, and on which builders can build unregulated (think “pyrite”) commercial and private dwelling buildings to yield a nice profit.

NUI Maynooth held off a late challenge from 14-man UCD to forge a deserved victory in last night’sfloodlit Sigerson Cup quarter-final.

It may not have been a St Valentine’s Day massacre, coming 24 hours after the day romantics cherish most, but the way the Gunners were gunned down in the San Siro was nothing less than fatal for their Champions League hopes.

He’s a member of Saturday’s opponents, as are the rest of his immediate family, but Anthony Cunningham admits he never asked his club St Brigid’s about taking over neighbours Garrycastle.

IT Carlow just prevailed in this Fitzgibbon Cup group tie at the IT grounds in Carlow yesterday after a competitive contest which featured a shootout between the respective centre-forwards – the home side’s TJ Reid and NUIG’s Niall Burke.

AS weekends go, this one must have been especially tough for Connacht.

AFTER a humdrum week of cup football, one question jostled for attention above all others: What has become of the great English love of mime?

AFTER years of success with Glanmire in ladies basketball, Mark Scannell realised his appetite wasn’t what it used to be.

IRELAND is set to return to the short-term bond markets this year, ahead of a planned resumption of auctioning long-term debt sometime in 2013.

THE first steps have been taken in establishing an unofficial referees’ body, the Gaelic Match Officials Association.

A landscape entitled The Orchard by the west Cork painter, illustrator and writer Edith Somerville (1858-1949) features at Dolan’s art auction at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork at 3pm on Sunday week, January 22.