THE schedule of matches for the 2005 RBS 6 Nations reveals that next year’s championship will begin at the Stade de France on February 5.

ARSÈNE WENGER last night ignored FA appeals for a truce by claiming that Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson had lost all sense of reality.

Cork 2-18 Limerick 1-12

WE snaked our way along the North Circular road, into a part of Dublin I was not very familiar with.

ARSENE WENGER has insisted that Francis Jeffers has the "special talent" to join the ranks of Arsenal's great strikers.

Blackburn 1 Tottenham 2

EUROVISION - the contest that nobody watched and everyone hates - will be alive and well and coming to you from Ukraine this May.

A TOTAL of 18 horses have been confirmed for the £120,000 Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday.

Llanelli Scarlets 10 Biarritz 27

MARK JACKSON made sure of one last souvenir to remind him of his days at Leeds - Harry Kewell’s number 10 shirt.

Blackburn 1 Leeds 0

CAROL HICKEY’S golden goal earned Crescent College Comprehensive a historic victory in the Munster Schoolgirls Senior Hockey Cup final at Garryduff yesterday.

COLE Porter wrote about precisely this kind of thing 70 years ago: red, hot and blue.

Galway 2-11 Cork 2-14

ISRAELI forces stormed two synagogues in the Gaza Strip yesterday where hundreds of settlers had holed up.

Burton 0 Man Utd 0

QUB 1-9, UUJ 1-8

Cloyne 5-8 Carbery 1-8

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly has called for a more responsible approach to referees by team officials and the public to stem the rising tide of abuse at games.

EDDIE GRAY is a Leeds legend. And perhaps there is no-one better qualified to speak on the club’s current plight than the Scot, whose heart and soul virtually reside in Elland Road.