How much can you learn a week after New Year’s Eve?

Catherine Ketch looks ahead to Monday’s announcement of the 2012 Great Taste supreme champion

STEPHEN IRELAND might still be on a self-imposed exile from international football but that hasn’t stopped him being nominated for a Young Player Of the Year gong in the 18th eircom/FAI International Awards, which will be broadcast live on RTÉ in February.

SETANTA SPORTS will show both of tomorrow’s World Cup qualifiers in Ireland’s Group 4 live.

Progressive Down outfit Castlewellan are on course to retain their AIB GAA Club of the Year title having been once again voted the cream of the Mourne County.

FITZGERALD STADIUM, Killarney was yesterday named as the venue for the meeting of Castlehaven and An Ghaeltacht in the semi-final of the AIB Munster club SFC on Sunday week next.

IN RESPONSE to Dick Warner’s article (Irish Examiner, May 12), like himself I love cowslips. As countryside management specialist for Teagasc, I wrote about them in the recent edition of our Teagasc magazine — Today’s Farm, which is circulated to all Teagasc clients.