WICKLOW, just held off a late rally by All-Ireland U21 special hurling champions Meath to win their Leinster championship tie at Arklow on Saturday (1-9 to 0-11).

Double, double winning coach at Highbury, Arsene Wenger, has achieved something special – success and universal respect. How does he do this?, wonders Tony Leen.

THE GAA has defended the standard of emergency services at matches after a man died during the Munster Under 21 final in Thurles.

Cardiff Blues 15 Stade Francais 38

THE president of the Medical Council last night said doctors should be legally obliged to notify the council about incompetent or “aberrant” practices by colleagues.

FITZY, Fitzy!”, the cry going up in the triumphant Sixmilebridge dressing-room, after yesterday’s heart-stopping injury-time win over Blackrock.

AS a consequence of their first defeat on tour to the Maoris last Saturday, it has been a difficult week for the Lions.

Georgia 1 Ireland 2

Greece 0 Ireland 0

DOWNHEARTED, yes. Desperate, no.

BOOKMAKERS in the North and Britain have become more adventurous recently with their soccer betting.

LANSDOWNE ROAD will be a strange place on May 24. Irish fans had been primed all week, all season, for an All-Ireland Heineken Cup final.

WHEN the final whistle sounded on Munster’s pulsating 25-31 semi-final victory over Toulouse in Bordeaux, little did we think that it would take the aristocrats of French rugby three years to reach the penultimate stage of the competition again. The fall-out from that defeat was massive.

England 0 Holland 0

THIS wasn’t Riverdance, this was rock’n’roll, hurling played to an incessant pounding beat, thumping bass matching every riff on the lead guitar.

THE inquiries into the AIB financial scandal could drag on until the end of the year, a spokesman for the financial watchdog, IFSRA, said last night.

WHAT an anti-climax.

TIGER WOODS has been handed a glorious opportunity to close the gap at the top of the world rankings on Vijay Singh as a result of the Fijian’s shock withdrawal last night from the American Express Championship starting at Mount Juliet on Thursday.