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  • Semi-finals stay in West

    Next week's all-Connacht National Football League semi-finals will both be held in the province. All-Ireland finalists Galway take on Sligo in Hyde Park, Roscommon on Saturday evening and the following afternoon in Markievicz Park, Sligo, Roscommon play Mayo. p

  • Arsenal's season far from over even if league is gone

    Anyone expecting to find Arsenal in a state of depression after Saturday's 3-0 home defeat by Middlesbrough is in for a shock. The championship may have slipped away, but Arsene Wenger reminded his players last night that this season could end with unprecedented success. p

  • Athenry show they are up with best

    Under the united banner of maroon and white, the west ruled Croke Park yesterday. The All-Ireland club finals - this year the moveable feast of football and hurling - was an occasion for Galway's standard bearers and Mayo's young contenders. p

  • Leeds hope to bring home no tales of the unexpected

    As underdogs snapping at the feet of well-heeled opponents, Leeds have developed a talent for feats of the unexpected, but, tonight in Estadio Riazor, they will be bartering from a rare position of strength. p

  • Liverpool's late lucrative larceny

    Liverpool had to thank a 44yard free-kick from Gary McAllister three and a half minutes into injury-time for these three points which see them somehow clinging to hopes of a Champions League place after one of the more dramatic Mersey derbies of recent times. p
EUROSCENE

  • Long road back for Ronaldo

    At around midday last Friday, the arrivals hall in Milan's international airport of Malpensa was abuzz with activity. Cameras whirred, lights flashed and microphones were thrust forward as Brazilian ace Ronaldo touched down on Italian soil to officially resume his football career. p
SPORT/DIGESTBack to Top

  • Fuchs turns tables on Pessoa

    Equestrian sport: Switzerland's Markus Fuchs, runner-up in last year's World Cup show jumping finals, turned the table on his vanquisher, Rodrigo Pessoa, by trouncing the Brazilian in a two-horse head-to-head at the finals in Gothenburg, Sweden yesterday, writes Grania Willis. p
GAELIC GAMES/ALL-IRELAND CLUB FINALSBack to Top

  • Mayo men take it home at long last

    The hex is broken. Yesterday in Croke Park, Crossmolina demonstrated to the rest of Mayo that All-Ireland finals do not necessarily end in a long trail of tears down the N4. p

  • Rabbitte pulls win out of hat

    Athenry won a second successive AIB club hurling championship at Croke Park yesterday. That bald statistic hides the fact that the Connacht side virtually lost the title before regaining it in extra time against an unlucky Graigue-Ballycallan. p
SOCCER/NATIONAL LEAGUEBack to Top

  • Students may yet survive stiff test

    It's been another of those weekends for UCD. More last-minute goal action, another good result for Finn Harps and further cause for the club's manager, Martin Moran, to wonder "just why it is I do this". p
SOCCER/ENGLISH FA PREMIERSHIPBack to Top

  • Coventry refuse to depart quietly

    John Hartson continues to give Coventry City fresh heart. Yesterday the Welshman's sixth goal in eight games brought Gordon Strachan's team their third win in four to keep alive Highfield Road's hopes of cheating relegation yet again. p

  • Smith still not counting chickens

    Before kick-off Derby County manager Jim Smith calculated his team needed two wins from their remaining games to preserve their Premiership status and, apart from a couple of second-half sorties from Leicester, there were rarely any doubts that this would be one of them. p

  • Armstrong makes his point

    It was a return to relish for the Ipswich striker Alun Armstrong, who left Middlesbrough last December in the week the head coach Terry Venables arrived. Many of the Boro faithful had always felt that Armstrong should have been higher up the pecking order at the club but the manager Bryan Robson deemed him surplus to requirements and brokered a sterling £500,000 deal for him. p

  • Under-fire Robson gets a Cort reprieve

    Newcastle's players finally deflected some of the criticism that has been heading in the direction of their manager Bobby Robson during a dreadful sequence of results. p
TODAY'S RACING PROGRAMMESBack to Top

  • O'Brien set to record treble

    The Leopardstown and Cork two-step continues this afternoon, although there is an unusually late 3.30 kick off at the Dublin track. p

  • Galileo impresses

    No sooner has racing restarted than the industry finds itself in a sweat about the escalating foot-and-mouth developments in the North of Ireland. p
RUGBY/EUROPEAN CUP BUILD-UPBack to Top

  • Moni is cleared to face Munster

    The Stade Francais flanker Christophe Moni will be cleared to face Munster in this Saturday's Heineken European Cup semifinal after the French champions appealed his automatic one-game suspension for receiving a second yellow card of the season in his side's championship defeat to Castres last Saturday evening. p
ON RUGBYBack to Top

  • Voluntary role remains vital

    In this job it's a standard enough inquiry of any leading player. Biggest influence on career? More often than not the pen is poised to record some leading light, a legend from afar or closer to home, a team-mate or national/club coach, only for the player to instead mention someone relatively obscure. p
THE SHORT GAMEBack to Top

  • Grogan mounts defence

    Ollie Grogan from Moate will be out for a repeat of last year's success when he defends the FBD sponsored Mount Temple Senior Scratch Cup at his neighbouring club on Sunday. Last year, Grogan shot a one under par 71 on the Mount Temple course, becoming the first winner to finish under par in the seven-year history of the event. p

  • Turning on the style

    There's no substitute for style as Tiger Woods proved at Augusta last week. On May 29th to 31st the amateur women golfers will have the opportunity to prove their skill when they take part in the Lady Augusta team classic at the St Helen's Bay and Rosslare golf clubs. p

  • Newport stays on form

    Continuing exactly where she left off. That is Fiona Newport in Howth. Last season she swept all before her and not surprisingly went on to win the Golfer of the Year title. The four handicapper has also made a great start to the new season. She took the top prize in Class One of the March monthly Medal with a score of 73. And then last week she followed that up by again taking top spot in Class One, this time in a par singles competition where she was all square for the 18 holes. p

  • Irish pair go Dutch

    National pitch and putt champions Marina O'Rourke (Cloghogue) and Ray Murphy (Templebreedy) will be guests of the Netherlands Pitch and Putt Bond at the official opening of its new course at Groningen. On Friday, the Irish pair will play an exhibition over nine holes against Dutch champions Rinus Huberts and Hermsa Olthuis and on Saturday they will be among the favourites to lift the tournament over the Groningen course. p

  • Juniors take on world

    Ireland, who finished third in European Boys' Team Championship last year, will be represented by C Bowe (Tramore), R McCarthy (Forrest Little), B McIlhinney (North West) and P McLaughlin (Ballyliffin) in the World Junior championships in Hyogo, Japan from June 15th to 18th. This is the 10th year of the championships, which will feature the top 15 Junior golfing countries worldwide in a 72 holes medal play format. p

  • Dundalk gets go-ahead

    Michael Hoey will get the chance to defend the Dundalk Scratch Cup on Sunday week, April 29th, after the Department of Agriculture's Expert Group lifted the foot-and-mouth restrictions it had placed in County Louth. Hoey heads a quality field that includes Walker Cup panelist Noel Fox and former title holders Gary Cullen and Johnny Foster. p

  • Lording it in Lucan

    The Imperial Imps Showband Golf Classic, in aid of St Raphael's Celbridge and St John of God Kildare Services, takes place on Friday June 15th at Lucan Golf club. p

  • Malone's luck runs out

    Luck just wasn't in for Breda Malone in Ardee during the past week as she had the unfortunate "honour" of taking runners-up spot in two of the club's weekly events. p

  • Byrne too hot in Borris

    Sheila Connolly (32) and Maura Coe (23) must have felt they were in with a chance of the top prize when shooting 40 points over 18 holes at Borris last week. However Gene Byrne, a 25 handicapper, took top spot with 45 points to blow away the rest of the field, leaving Connolly and Coe to settle for second and third spot respectively. p
AMATEUR SCENE/WEST OF IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPBack to Top

  • McGimpsey in with the young guns

    Only last weekend at Rosses Point he talked self-deprecatingly about being here simply to make up the numbers. In a way, it proved to be an accurate assessment, insofar as 45-year-old Garth McGimpsey made up the last four yesterday in the Standard Life West of Ireland Championship. p
IT REALLY HAPPENED IN GOLF/PART THREEBack to Top

  • Drunk with the success of a betting coup

    The scene was Hoylake, home of the Royal Liverpool Club, where the scratch golfer and his six-handicap rival had agreed on a level match. The catch was that there would be one condition: the handicap player would have the right to say "Boo!" three times during the round. p
CLUB REVENUE/THE SOCIETY OUTINGBack to Top

  • Open door policy can reap dividends

    Golf societies, bane of the club member but the financial elixir for sundry golf clubs. It's a matter of perspective. For those who preside over the new and the old, the elite and the more modest golf clubs, the revenue from society golf can offer the wherewithal to expand and develop a course or clubhouse and copperfasten a club's evolution. p
THE IRISH TIMES/BULMERS TOTAL GOLFBack to Top

  • A society without fringe benefits

    It all started in a pub in Wexford several years ago. Paddy Butler, son of the late Tramore Golf Club professional Christy, was receiving a ribbing from a biker type about his receding hairline. Butler, looking across at the blond-haired, ponytailed biker, replied: "I'm going to establish something in which you won't be able to take part," and so The Baldy Men Golf Society was born. p
EUROPEAN TOURBack to Top

  • Clarke ready to move into overdrive

    Darren Clarke's season may seem to have started slowly - even if it does include a win in South Africa - but he is set to click into overdrive over the coming months. In fact, having played in just six tournaments over the past four months, the world number eight returns for this week's Spanish Open which will mark the first of 14 tournaments in just 16 weeks. p
CADDIES ROLEBack to Top

  • US players' future is secure

    It's back to reality in Europe this week with modest purses and not the mega rewards that have been on offer in the US over the past month. Bernhard Langer, probably at the twilight of an outstanding career, managed to pull over $750,000 from the kitty for a third, sixth and third place finish respectively in the TPC, the Masters and Hilton Head. p
US TOURBack to Top

  • Coceres rides his luck

    Argentina's Jose Coceres captured his second PGA title yesterday with a par at the fifth hole of a sudden death playoff to defeat Billy Mayfair. p
BETTING/SPANISH OPENBack to Top

  • Home boys are poor value for money

    Some of the European Tour's heavyweights have answered the call of home and returned for this week's Spanish Open, which takes place at the PGA Golf de Catalunya in Girona, starting on Thursday. p
US LPGA TOURBack to Top

  • Records fall as Sorenstam overcomes 10-shot deficit

    She's not world number one, but Annika Sorenstam's play these days suggests that she really is. Although Kerrie Webb currently tops the women's world professional rankings, Sweden's Sorenstam - who won her fourth successive title on the US LPGA Tour at the weekend - is the player dominating the game. p
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