September Road: According to Chorus, their sports channel is available in 140,000 Irish homes - mainly in Munster and south Leinster. Broadcasting seven days a week, the channel concentrates on GAA, soccer and rugby. And it's often worth watching.

But we have a request. Could someone working with Chorus please take the 2006 Harty Cup and Leinster hurling finals off the schedule?

We enjoyed watching a repeat of Midleton CBS v St Flannan's and Kilkenny CBS v Dublin Colleges back in March. And, when there was nothing else on, we even watched it once or twice more. But it's still being shown - now labelled GAA Gold - as are the All-Ireland Colleges hurling and football finals. The matches are often show daily, even twice a day.

Surely even parents of the players aren't looking at it any more. So, apart from September Road, who is?

Quote of the Weekend: "The panel is behind (Ger) Loughnane . . . we feel he is the man . . . we'd be excited to get back training with him . . . the whole thing needs shaking up, and that's what Loughnane can do." - Galway's senior hurlers declare their hand

Kilkenny win a free in the middle of the Croke Park pitch . . . they're down by three . . . the scoreboard clock enters the first of three allotted minutes of injury time . . . the under-21 hurlers from both sides race towards the Tipperary goal . . . most of the usual cliches apply . . . hearts are racing, on and off the field; it's now or never for the Cats; the crowd are on the edge of their seats, etc . . . and . . . a handful of stewards along the front of the Hogan Stand jump to their feet and hold a thick, orange mesh six feet in the air, obscuring the view of at least the first five rows of supporters.

Stopping the crowd coming onto the field is one thing - but blocking supporters watching the final throes of a classic tie - not the brightest idea.

A few seconds later - after some choice words suggesting other, more original, uses for the screen were uttered by some of the many fans now standing and straining to peer over the barrier - the stewards retreated, presumably in shock, lowering the mesh and sitting down on the sideline.

Though, considering what was about to happen, Tipperary supporters may have wished they had stood their ground.

With the week that's in it, we have to mention the soccer player that helped Brighton defeat Millwall at the weekend. Kerry Mayo played the second half for the Seagulls, helping them win 1-0.