A first-half Mark Sugrue goal proved crucial in this tight meeting at Caherlag on Saturday, helping Bandon to just about see off a competitive Castlelyons team.

When the final whistle sounded, Wexford supporters paused before a huge cheer greeted their dramatic comeback having pulled off one of the great escapes at Wexford Park yesterday.

TOTTENHAM may have been able to recover from a grim start but it seems there will be no way back for Steve Kean.

THE last minute of the game at the Emirates and Arsenal fans who have made for the exits can’t quite bring themselves to leave.

I WAS left disappointed by the glamour games in the top two visions on the opening weekend of the Allianz Hurling League.

“ALL or nothing” – that’s how Toulon and England star Jonny Wilkinson is viewing Saturday’s showdown at Thomond Park with Munster after helping his side to a Heineken Cup opening round win against the Ospreys.

NOW that was a good week! Convincing Champions League display (you don’t often hear a Chelsea fan say that), resounding result over Blackburn and Joe Cole not only back, but having lost none of his magic.

Marseille 2, Newcastle 0 (Marseille win 2-0 on aggregate)

Wigan 1 Manchester United 2

IF a cardiologist had hooked a Munster supporter up to a heart monitor last Saturday evening, he’d have been able to tell what was happening in the Millennium Stadium without switching on the television.

WITH two rounds of the 2008 National Hurling League behind us already it’s beginning to grate.

RANGERS’ bid to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League will go right to the wire after they lost in Stuttgart last night.

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

Newcastle 1 Juventus 0

The lawyer of the man who blew the whistle on Russia's state-sponsored doping programme believes anything other than a ban from February's Winter Olympics would "embolden the cheats".

A senior Tusla manager has said that the failure by Tusla to correct a series of errors which resulted in false allegations of child abuse being made against garda whistle blower Maurice McCabe were "absolutely coincidences".

A former high-flying bank executive who exposed alleged law-breaking in the industry a year before the crash is relying on friends for food, he has told a parliamentary watchdog.

Spain’s princess Cristina testified today in a historic judicial hearing aimed at helping determine whether she and her husband illegally used company funds for personal expenses, including lavish parties at their modernist Barcelona mansion.

Burnley 1 Hull 0