If you can, try to put your championship expectations aside for one second and consider it’s Central Council time again on Saturday week.

There was a decrease of almost 4% in retail sales in the year to October, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show.

SINN FÉIN leader Gerry Adams has accused the Labour Party of having “ruled out” the development of a credible right/left divide in Irish politics by attaching themselves to Fine Gael.