Cork City 0 Galway Utd 0

IT HAD to happen. I’ve had problems with my calf before, but all week everything was going so well, in fact all year everything was going so well, to the point where I probably got a bit cocky.

GARETH THOMAS will captain Wales in Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations clash with England after Stephen Jones was forced to pull out with a fractured bone in his wrist.

Celtic 0 Rangers 1

CHOKERS and choking.

Italy 23 Wales 20

Greencastle (Tyrone) 0-13 Duagh (Kerry) 0-12

LILLE have decided to end their protest against Ryan Giggs’ winning goal for Manchester United in the first leg of their Champions League tie a fortnight ago.

LIT 1-16 UL 2-9

FROM Fortress Lansdowne to Castle Croker, Ireland’s first home and away soccer match was as much a voyage of discovery for the fans as the footballers.

THE first thing you notice about Ireland’s newest maternity hospital is its shape, a sweeping expanse of limestone, steel and glass that adorns the southern approach to Cork University Hospital in the city’s Wilton area.

Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive Gordon Taylor yesterday called on clubs and police to remain extra vigilant following the ugly scenes which marred the end of Chelsea’s FA Cup win at Spurs.

DOCTORS are to be trained in the mid-west for the first time at University of Limerick.

IN my hotel in Bootle the morning after Liverpool had knocked Barcelona out of the Champions League at Anfield, a large group of Asian supporters, resplendent in red, were happily chatting away over breakfast.

LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez cannot understand why Jamie Carragher is not one of England’s first-choice central defenders.

DANNY O’HANLON was the name on everyone’s lips at Nowlan Park yesterday.

PAOLO BERTINI is a nice guy.

LEEDS legend Eddie Gray fears the club could struggle to get back among the game’s elite after a humiliating relegation to League One — English football’s third tier — was all but sealed.

RAFAEL BENITEZ shrugged off his Liverpool shadow squad’s defeat at Portsmouth and vowed to confine the embarrassment of Fratton Park to a mere footnote by punching another big hole in Chelsea’s season at Anfield tomorrow night.

WHAT promises to be the closest general election contest in years gets under way in earnest today following yesterday’s dissolution of the 29th Dáil by President Mary McAleese.