The Irish government has announced a process of intensified engagement over the Rockall fisheries dispute has been agreed with the Scottish government.

The 17.15m-high lump of granite — Rockall — and the fish-rich North Atlantic waters around it, are the cause of trouble yet again.

One of the least attractive realities of capitalism — and nearly every other “ism” too — is that the monkey with the biggest stick usually gets all the coconuts. 

GALILEAN, stepping up to a mile and a half for the first time, gets the nap to land the Tipperary Races Support Munster Maiden at Tipperary this evening.