IT WAS a rare moment of light heartedness in an otherwise dull referendum campaign: The Labour leader had just begun his speech at the launch of his party’s call for a yes vote when a poster above became unhinged and crashed to the ground beside him.

THERE is a real tremor of delight in subsuming ones intelligence to the blatant nonsense that a particular washing powder will wash whiter than white.

THIS shouty noisefest of a referendum campaign on the European Stability Treaty is part of a hugely important cultural debate, or it should be.

JOURNALISTS and politicians have a fatal attraction of the bunny boiling variety.

SCORING spectacularly against the last government was about as challenging as hitting the broad side of a barn at point blank range.

YESTERDAY marked the centenary of the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons at Westminster. We are beginning a decade of commemoration lasting until the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 2022.

Sometime, somehow, sports professionals ceased to be real people.

Business opportunity.

It was almost impossible to make out whatever vision Wenger has left for his club.

HOPE springs eternal.