TWO weeks ago, in this column, I wrote about how a suspension of disbelief was required to make the most of watching the Olympic Games.

KATIE TAYLOR has inspired the nation with her outstanding performances at the Olympic Games, for which we are grateful.

UNFORTUNATELY, enjoyment of the Olympic Games often requires something that one associates with screen or theatrical drama, or fiction: a suspension of disbelief.

ARGUABLY the lowest point of Tuesday evening came when Madonna dropped her trousers.

AS JOHN TREACY ran the finishing 100 metres of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon, the RTÉ commentator, Jimmy Magee, listed 12 names.

DOESN’T every middle-aged and older generation think that things are worse now than they used to be?

THOSE who like to complain about the so-called “nanny state” have been given more opportunity to vent in recent weeks.

AN imagined conversion between Enda Kenny and Angela Merkel on the fringes of the EU summit this weekend….

TWO men sitting in a pub, having a pint, talking about the European football championships:

A DARK shadow hangs over the reputations of some of Ireland’s greatest athletes and nothing, it seems, can ever remove it.