IS it not long past time that what passes for the British and Irish Lions rugby team be confined to the colonial dustbin and that a new, modern team comprised of countries which form the Six Nations championship be put together?

A former Church of Ireland primate and a one time Catholic priest were today appointed by the government to draw up proposals about how the North should come to terms with its bloody past.

A DUP councillor from Belfast has complained about the inclusion of the word 'Irish' in the name of the British and Irish Lions rugby team.