MICHAEL SLOCUM knows the heartache of losing a Corn Uí Mhuirí final.

SOUND travels in waves. And the roar that greeted the final whistle in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday afternoon, at the end of a tumultuous Munster SHC semi-final was tidal.

ANY talk of dissension in the Galway camp was well and truly dispelled in Croke Park yesterday where Conor Hayes’ men fashioned an exhilarating two point victory over Tipperary in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals.

ENGLAND lived up to their ranking as the No 1 side in the world and left hapless Ireland wondering just what had hit them.

Waterford 1-13 Wexford 0-14

Dan Collins

TWENTY hours later, away from the roars of nearly 40,000 enraptured fans, viewed in the cold light of retrospection, was Sunday’s rip-roaring All-Ireland hurling semi-final between Galway and Kilkenny really one of the all-time great hurling games?

PAUL McGINLEY last night blasted the USPGA and others who set up their golf courses to suit the game’s longest hitters.

A SCHOOLBOY soccer match erupted into a full-scale riot as up to 80 parents, players and supporters fought viciously in the middle of the pitch, shocked eye-witnesses revealed yesterday.

THE singing South Africans may have struck a bum note with their conquered Irish victims in the 11-a-side football tournament at the AUL complex in Clonshaugh, Dublin yesterday.

THE controversy following the Munster Club Senior Football League final, in which Douglas are adamant they defeated Austin Stacks by a point only to be told by Waterford referee Sean Michael Kelly the game was a draw, rages on.

Armagh 2-17 Laois 1-11

THE State could face massive civil actions from victims of crime claiming their right to privacy had been infringed by garda leaks, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday.

Galway 0-16 Kilkenny 1-12

ONE’S first reaction, on hearing Cashmans were offering Vinnie Roe at 3-1 for Saturdays’ Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh, was that it was a very fair price indeed.

CSKA Sofia 3

TIKRAM, 25-1 for the Ladbroke Hurdle with the sponsors on Monday, is now as low as 12-1 in two places after the flow of support for Gary Moore’s hurdler continued yesterday.

TOWNS and villages came alive yesterday to the sounds of the age-old Wren Boys tradition.

UEFA has told Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho to stop criticising referees.