Jocelyn Gecker, Banda Aceh

Brendan O’Brien

WHEN the passionate din of an extraordinary afternoon finally subsided, Cork were still in with a chance of winning this year’s All-Ireland senior football title.

FOR a fourth successive season, Ireland goes into the final weekend of the Six Nations championship with tangible rewards on offer. This time the dream of capturing both the Triple Crown and championship are still alive.

KIERAN McGEENEY is likely to be available for the crucial second test against Australia in the Fosters International Rules Series in the MCG Grounds next Friday.

Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1

Cork 0-16 Clare 0-18

Bayer Leverkusen 1 Newcastle 3

THE staging of the Heineken Cup final at Lansdowne Road today may seem to be a most bizarre decision by the ERC committee, but as recently as last Wednesday, when Celtic played Porto in Spain in the UEFA Cup final, we saw its parallel in another sport.

Portlaw 0-18 Shamrocks 1-2

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.