There aren’t too many images in modern history as sad, as forceful a reality check as the 1938 one of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain waving his peace-in-our-time note on an English airfield after talks with Hitler in Munich.

The Austrian Olympic Committee has received an anonymous letter from Russia containing a kidnap threat against Alpine skier Marlies Schild and skeleton pilot Janine Flock during the Sochi Games.

Ryanair has claimed “awful service levels” in Dublin Airport is causing massive delays at peak times in T1.

An Australian rower has been sent home from the Olympics after damaging two storefront windows outside London.

THOUSANDS of sports fans around the world have been conned by an internet scam which sold bogus tickets to events at the Beijing Olympics.

The king of French cheeses, the pungent and oozing camembert, is under threat from its own producers, who are moving towards using filtered milk to avoid health risks and appeal to global palates.

BOSSES at Cork Airport defended their controversial new €160 million terminal building yesterday following criticism from airport operators that the old building had better facilities and is more user-friendly.

Jana Pittman, the 400 metre hurdles world champion, today conceded she will not run at the Athens Olympics after damaging her right knee in a freak training accident on Friday.

Wine flavoured with wood chips was, until recently, just the kind of thing France’s vintners were proud to have nothing to do with.