Today the Public Accounts Committee will be looking into one of the most expensive corporate fiascoes in the history of Irish sport.

IT is hard to believe that anyone with any intelligence was surprised by the High Court ruling this week that the Donegal South-West by-election should be held without further delay. The existing delay, since the election of Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher to the European Parliament in June 2009, has been the longest in the history of the state.

THE Government last night rejected a claim by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny that the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern misled the Dáil over the National Aquatic Centre.