SEAMUS MOYNIHAN, the former captain of the Kerry football team, announced his retirement from the sport this week. In the process, he set an example which could be followed to the benefit of the whole nation.

BALLYBUNION Golf Club has prospered in recent years largely because of the influence of Tom Watson who put it on the international map.

JOHN McIntyre was one of life’s misfits who got mixed up with the wrong crowd, became implicated in drugs and gun-running, and ended up being murdered in 1984.

DURING a series of radio interviews this week, Gerry Cameron, a former American police chief, described the current war on drugs as a complete failure.

CORK football manager Billy Morgan’s complaints after last Sunday’s game against Kerry seemed like sour grapes.

ON Tuesday last, Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, was interviewed on RTÉ.

THE majority of Americans now have reservations about their country’s involvement in Iraq, with a resulting plummet in the popularity of George W Bush.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern was articulate in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon.

UNDER international law, reprisal actions are supposed to be commensurate with the provocation.

THE recent kidnappings of the three Israeli soldiers and the horrific repercussions have a haunting parallel with events in Tralee in 1920.