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.

WICKLOW, just held off a late rally by All-Ireland U21 special hurling champions Meath to win their Leinster championship tie at Arklow on Saturday (1-9 to 0-11).

Double, double winning coach at Highbury, Arsene Wenger, has achieved something special – success and universal respect. How does he do this?, wonders Tony Leen.

THE GAA has defended the standard of emergency services at matches after a man died during the Munster Under 21 final in Thurles.

Cardiff Blues 15 Stade Francais 38

THE president of the Medical Council last night said doctors should be legally obliged to notify the council about incompetent or “aberrant” practices by colleagues.

FITZY, Fitzy!”, the cry going up in the triumphant Sixmilebridge dressing-room, after yesterday’s heart-stopping injury-time win over Blackrock.