BRIAN O’DRISCOLL has slammed the soccer superstars who shunned Giovanni Trapattoni’s invite to the European Championship win in Macedonia earlier this month.

THE “drugs-are-great philosophy” within mainstream psychiatry is falling apart and the discipline needs to reinvent itself, according to an acclaimed US author interviewed in today’s Irish Examiner.

UP to 37 specific initiatives have emerged from the Global Irish Economic Forum that could be placed before today’s meeting of the cabinet.