Thus Tipperary yesterday.

JUST LAST week Tony Blair visited Ireland to publicise his autobiography.

THE late Gerald Goldberg, Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork, lawyer and politician, was once asked rather pointedly by an interviewer if he had ever experienced prejudice in Ireland.

THE discussion about fencing Croke Park rumbles on and on, flooding the airwaves and the papers, rolling out, spilling across, very much like a... well, like a pitch invasion.

AHAB and Nemesis.

ANOTHER week, another one-side hurling semi-final?

YOU will have no problem identifying the Cork people in your vicinity today.

THE scene: the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, last Saturday night.

ANOTHER piece of childhood vanished for a lot of people over the weekend with the death of former world snooker champion Alex Higgins.

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