IS Lord Hutton a clone of Lord Widgery of Bloody Sunday notoriety or is the liberal application of whitewash to cover establishment wrongdoings a standard function of a British law lord?

WOUNDED hero David Beckham was the man inflicting the wounds last night as he inspired Manchester United to a Champions League triumph over flu-ridden Juventus at Old Trafford.

Aston Villa 0 Manchester Utd 1

Wexford 1-7 Galway 0-15

Mitchelstown CBS 3-5 Nagle Rice (Doneraile) 1-9

Meath 2-13, Westmeath 2-13

Cork 0-13 Kerry 0-12

SHELL-SHOCKED is the only way to describe Harlequins women’s hockey side at the end of their All-Ireland Club Championship qualifier on Saturday.

ITALY’S media praised Liverpool supporters for their tributes to the victims of the Heysel tragedy, while criticising the behaviour of a section of Juventus fans at Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final at Anfield.

AN angry Bernie O’Connor was in no humour for niceties after his side’s close-run All-Ireland Club Senior Hurling win yesterday over Ulster champions Ballygalget.

IN more ways than the merely geographical, it might seem like a long way from the Brandywell to Stamford Bridge but visits to Derry and west London in close succession last weekend underlined the pleasantly surprising extent to which football can shrink the world.

CONTRASTING fortunes in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday - contradictory fortunes also.

Rangers 1 CSKA Moscow 1 (CSKA Moscow win 3-2 on aggregate

VIJAY SINGH waited until the first hole of a three-man play-off to card his first bogey of the day at Whistling Straits yesterday.

Wexford 0-24 Laois 1-10

INNISCARRA and Bride Rovers are through to the permanent tsb Cork County IHC final thanks to victories over Aghabullogue and Youghal, respectively, over the weekend.

MALCOLM PERRY listens to the wind coming through the trees with a low roar, or a whistle, or suddenly, a shriek that sometimes is familiar to him.

Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh 2-10 Intermediate School Killorglin 0-10

Ballyduff Upper 1-15 Passage East 0-8