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.

IT was Christmas Eve babe, and I wasn’t in the drunk tank.

HERE’S a tale of two cities, and two men, and how the more things change, the more often they stay the same.

TOMORROW, the Green Party celebrates. At a gathering in the Central Hotel in Dublin, members will raise a glass to 30-years-a-growing.

THE gravy leaks out of all sorts of strange places. Everybody is now familiar with the gravy flowing through the ranks of senior politicians and public servants. But what about other sections of the elite?