Upstairs in the Cork Institute of Technology student centre, a picture of the college’s 2009 Sigerson Cup winning team hangs on the wall outside Keith Ricken’s office.

When your opening championship game of the summer is a 16-point hammering on home soil and your last is the All-Ireland final, it goes without saying that there came a turning point somewhere along the road.

After three abandoned meetings, the horse racing action returns at Limerick this afternoon, and punters can get their reward early by siding with Plain Talking in the opener and Pakman in the second race.

Willie Nelson, at 82, has written an autobiography and Billy O’Callaghan finds it full of music, humour, thoughtfulness and insight culled from lessons learned the painful way — and surprisingly confessional.

SCOTLAND:

At Home in Ireland

A MOTHER who was fatally stabbed at her home last month is to be cremated tomorrow.