WHAT on earth is a decent hard-working witch to do? There I was, ready, as always at this time of the year, to predict the future for all of you, and to ensure that you’d have no surprises throughout 2014.

Thousands of supporters have turned out in Dublin to welcome the Irish rugby Grand Slam winning team.

NONE of us knows, of course, what the future will bring. Did Charlie McCreevy ever think, this time last year, that he’d be pulling his next Christmas cracker in Brussels?

Bars in Dublin are expecting to pull around a million pints of Guinness this Sunday as fans flock in for the Six Nations Grand Slam showdown.