There are questions I asked, and questions I wish I’d asked. Over the years in sporting situations, some queries have materialised in the frontal lobes before being pushed to the back of the cranium, where they hang remain, spiky and unfulfilled.

The Government is providing funding to 116 Irish community organisations in the UK.

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has announced details of a grant scheme as part of the Emigrant Support Programme.

THE potential commercial benefits of such areas as education and the arts are to be examined in the coming months by the new Global Irish Network, set up after last year’s Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh House.