Stuttgart 3 Celtic 2 (Celtic win 5-4 on aggregate)

THE mass exodus of Armagh supporters onto Croke Park after the Orchard county’s breakthrough victory in Sunday’s All-Ireland football final was allowed for safety reasons and doesn’t represent a change of policy on behalf of the GAA.

THE IRISH are never too quick at assembling for the post-match press conferences. So it was again yesterday, when Andy Robinson and his English backroom team got the first bite and took the opportunity to lash into South African referee Jonathan Kaplan.

THE issue of tainted blood was the greatest bureaucratic scandal of the 20th century in Ireland. It has already involved more than 75 premature deaths. That total is likely to increase to more than €200.

St Finbarr’s, Farranferris 0-8 Mayfield Community School 0-5

WHO will succeed Aghada as winners of the Munster Club Senior Football League title?

LAID up as he currently is after an operation on his left knee, Paul McGinley has plenty of time to reflect on 2004.

Chris Hatherall

UCD 1-12 Birr 1-7

Laois 1-12, Offaly 1-12

IRELAND will face China, the team ranked fourth in the world, in the bronze medal match at the KT Cup in South Korea after beating Malaysia 4-0 yesterday.

Barcelona 4, Parma 2

OIL prices and the fate of the dollar look like being two pot boilers in the weeks ahead.

FOR SIX consecutive years, 1949 to 1954, Cork and Tipperary met in the Munster SHC, the last five of those in the final.

“I WAS only ever wrong once,” goes the favourite joke of a friend of mine. “It happened once when I thought I was wrong, but I was actually right!”

CORK senior footballers will continue to sweat for at least another day before knowing whether they will be stripped of their Munster championship crown following the use of six substitutes in Sunday's provincial final against Tipperary.

2002 Allstars 11-20 2003 Allstars 13-10

Waterford 1-7 Cork 0-9