IF ENDA KENNY and Arsene Wenger ever decide to have a friendly kickabout they will surely have lots in common to talk about. 

LORD POWERSCOURT introduced Japanese Sika deer — just one stag and three hinds — to Ireland in 1860, for “ornamental purposes”. 

IT may not be an analogy Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s handlers might comfortably offer, but if the saga of his leadership, and particularly when it might end, was imagined as a dance of the seven veils then Mr Kenny can have only one, or at the very most two, veils left ahead of tomorrow’s Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting where it is expected but not certain, that he will clarify when he will shed the last veil. 

WE have a highly skilled professional army trained to fight an unlikely invasion by foreign forces, and aa naval service and air corps to patrol peaceful seas and skies, but little by way of a functioning national cyber-security programme.

HAVE we all become like Pavlov’s dogs, salivating at the touch of a mobile phone, Xbox, or laptop?

THE sight of Britain’s Prince Charles wielding a hurley and striking a sliothar into the back of the net would have been unimaginable a few short years ago. 

RONAN O’GARA was granted the Freedom of Cork, a signal honour that dates from the 14th century. 

IT was hard to tell which infuriated INMO leader Liam Doran the most — the suggestion by Dr Kevin Kelleher, assistant national director of the HSE’s Health Protection unit, that nurses be given chocolates to entice them to take up the flu vaccine or RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke’s opening question when interviewing him: “Well, Liam, Roses or Milk Tray?”

THE 1992 Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in modern history. 

THERE was nothing unexpected in the first report published by the Public Service Pay Commission yesterday.