I KNOW it’s juvenile but perhaps my favourite moment this past memorable weekend was hearing BBC Radio reporting live that a stunt mounted by the Red Issue fanzine had succeeded perfectly.

ARSENAL suffered a humiliation yesterday after defeat to Aston Villa in their final home game of the season, with supporters jeering the team during a lap appreciation after the final whistle.

A CONFIDENTIAL hotline aimed at exposing white-collar crime, including in the banks, is among a raft of suggestions being considered in a new Government blueprint on crime.

Seedbombs are little ‘mud packs’ of flower seeds flung randomly to bloom, and prettify urban areas says Suzanne Harrington.

LIGHTS. Camera. Action.

IT WAS late in the evening, though not so late that the food and beverage hadtaken an edge off the senses.

A RANGE of experiences this past weekend began to make me wonder if there is something different going on in Ireland.

AN IMPRESSIVE Cork cruised past Clare in this Munster JFC clash at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

SUMMER may have begunpositively on the scoreboard forthe Kerry footballers yesterday, yet another disciplinary storm diminished their enjoyment of this Munster SFC quarter-final success.

FOR most of those watching as last Saturday’s second-half unfolded, the transformation seemed to take little more than the blink of an eye.

WE TEND to attach more significance to the smaller details on days like these.

Romain Poite takes charge of his first Heineken Cup final this evening but, as Ian Moriarty finds out, he has not been without controversy.

RIGHT up there with ‘why would you do that?’, ‘what the hell did you say to her?’ and ‘where’s that tenner you owe me?’, ‘what’s it like being a reporter at big games?’, is the question I’m most asked.

KILKENNY paid a heavy price for their ill-discipline in last Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final when two of their players were hit with suspensions for unsavoury incidents during the Croke Park game.

THE head of one of the country’s most powerful trade unions has written to all TDs in a bid to stem criticism of the extent of savings made under the Croke Park Agreement.

IT’S been an extraordinarily busy few days. A royal wedding, an assassination attempt on Gaddafi, the Emirates match, Osama being the only Bin taken out on a bank holiday… And spare a thought too for FC United, whose astonishing rampage towards promotion (having been all but bottom in January) was thwarted by a late goal in the play-off final at Colwyn Bay.

TO be in title contention after our disastrous extended blip is tantamount to a miracle.

THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for a lifting of the secrecy which surrounds the operation of the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA).