A round-up of this week's best sports travel deals up for grabs
Champions League soccer
Keith Prowse Travel (01-8783500, www.keithprowse.com) and Marathon Travel (01-4755010, www.marathon-travel.ie) have last-minute packages available for the second leg of next week's Champions League qualifying ties involving Arsenal and Liverpool. Both matches are on Wednesday, with Keith Prowse offering ticket-only deals for Arsenal's game against FC Twente for €122. A one-night hotel and ticket package costs €171. Marathon Travel's hotel and match ticket package for Liverpool's clash with Standard Liege at Anfield costs from €199.
Golf
Cassidy Golf (01-8725000 www.cassidygolf.com) is offering a number of week-long trips for autumn and winter. In September and October, it has a trip to Mexico that includes golf at the Greg Norman-designed Playa Mujeres course near Cancún. Flights are via Atlanta and accommodation is at the new five-star Silver Sands Riviera resort. From €1,270 per person plus taxes. It is also promoting holidays to Las Vegas and San Francisco in November. Packages cost €1,350 per person including flights. Taxes, transfers and internal flights are extra.
Finally, if you're already thinking ahead to next year and whether Pádraig Harrington can make it three major wins in succession, Cassidy Golf has two-night and full tournament packages for April's Masters in Augusta, from €2,800 per person sharing.
European Soccer
Celtic Horizon Tours (01-6292000, www.celtichorizontours.com) will have two-night hotel and match ticket packages available for the coming season at the San Siro, the home of both Inter and rivals AC Milan. Sportsbreaks.ie (061-204444, www.sportsbreaks.ie) is offering two-night trips to see Bayern Munich in action, from €329pps.