TIME was that when a broth of an Irishman — and the long, curious journey towards self-realisation has suggested I may be one — decided to visit a vegetarian restaurant it was like going to the zoo. 

John Daly’s article entitled ‘What Lies Beneath’ (Forum, Aug 3) is timely in light of the recent publication of the Green Paper on Defence.

A former District Court judge serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence for deception has pleaded guilty to a new charge.

RYLANE, CO CORK €295,000

The Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn will appear before a Joint Oireachtas Committee on jobs, social protection and education today.

A NEW dedicated tourism unit has unveiled plans to attract a million extra tourists to Cork city and generate €120 million in tourism revenue.

The newly-elected Government at its meeting today, on the nomination of the Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has appointed Ministers of State and assigned them to departments with the particular areas of responsibility set out below.

UNDER-PRESSURE Manchester City coach Roberto Mancini has asked for more time in the post after his side lost their third match in a row against Lech Poznan on Thursday night.

ALMOST 6,000 applications under the new Agri-Environment Options Scheme (AEOS) have been approved, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Brendan Smith announced at the championships.

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech has ignored the pleas of Zinedine Zidane and refused to pick his fit-again captain Patrick Vieira for the World Cup qualifying play-off against Ireland on November 14.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

Minister for the Environment John Gormley said he hopes a report commissioned by him into the toxic waste site at Haulbowline Island will reassure people there are no health risks associated with it.

Green Party Minister John Gormley has dismissed Cork County Council’s unprecedented vote of no confidence in him as “political opportunism”.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Today, and every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership. Let him know what you think and he’ll argue the toss with you.

SOUTH MARSH, trained in Ballygarvan by Barry Lynch, made amends for a very unlucky defeat in the Connacht Cup a few weeks a ago with an impressive win in the Slaney Cup at Enniscorthy yesterday.

THE failure to introduce laws reducing spiralling insurance costs will force many companies out of business and put hundreds out of work, the Alliance for Insurance Reform (AIR) claimed yesterday.

An alliance between the Aquator Group and EPS could forge a strong new force in water and wastewater treatment services in Ireland.

Alvaro Recoba returned with a vengeance from a year of torment and goes to the World Cup living up to his status as the world’s best-paid footballer.

Kanu is the man to drag Nigerian football away from the self-destruct button threatening to detonate their chances of success in this summer’s Far East football extravaganza.

Marc Wilmots is Belgium’s unlikely hero, a player unlikely to feature in the lists of those predicting potential World Cup stars but one who perhaps ought not be ignored.

Gabriel Batistuta walked out of a love affair and into a marriage of convenience when he left Fiorentina for Roma.