New Year, new you, right? But what if I told you that most of the resolutions you will make this year are designed to fail so that you can achieve the self-fulfilling prophecy that you are just too weak to be able to accomplish it in the first place?

The daunting experience of a second English exam came and passed for this year’s Leaving Certificate students yesterday afternoon.

The personal archive of Peter O’Toole, one of the great actors of stage and screen who died in 2013, has been bought by the University of Texas for $400,000 (€373,000).

DAVID DUCHOVNY ON MR ROGERS AND ME

A Hundred Doors

Barry Geraghty claimed the headlines at Perth as he rode a near 27-1 treble on the final day of the Scottish track’s three-day festival meeting.

Laertes put up a fine staying performance to land the £25,000 Press & Journal Highland National, the feature race on the final day of Perth’s festival meeting.

THOMAS STUDLEY (Irish Examiner letters, June 30) bemoans the fact that the attire of our public figures is “flouting decorum” and is in “extremely bad taste.”