McCarthy's men abroad

Planet Football salutes Celtic's Colin Healy and Manchester United's Roy Keane and Denis Irwin who have all now picked up championship…

Planet Football salutes Celtic's Colin Healy and Manchester United's Roy Keane and Denis Irwin who have all now picked up championship winning medals across the water. All Munster men too (three Cork natives), as if their rugby team hadn't left their heads swelled enough. Respect, too, to Matt Holland, who played his 209th consecutive league game for Ipswich on Saturday. Spooky.

Player of the week? Ian Harte (above). Not so much because of his performance against Liverpool, more because of the "Inter set for Harte failure" story we read midweek: "Leeds are expected to dismiss reports linking Ian Harte with a move to Inter Milan as part of the deal to confirm Robbie Keane's signature". As recently as January Harte was playing in the Leeds' reserves and was being "linked" with a move to Sunderland and Ipswich. Now? The world's his lobster. Funny auld game, all the same.

Mary Hannigan

Mary Hannigan

Mary Hannigan is a sports writer with The Irish Times