I'M just back from the 2012 edition of the international Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, Slow Food’s biannual event which brings together small-scale farmers, artisan producers, fishermen, experts, academics, chefs and young people from over 160 countries.

Concussion has become the elephant in the room with ice hockey, writes Michael Moynihan

Chart veteran Paul Weller was today shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize for the first time in 16 years – and will battle it out with past winner Dizzee Rascal.

TODAY, the hills and mountains are white and the tall, leafless poplar trees are beautiful, all dressed in snow.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt's Las Vegas, Nevada dream is over - their ambitious Las Ramblas hotel complex is dead.

JOHNNY EGAN made a successful first visit to Cork Racecourse yesterday when guiding Slip Dance to a smooth victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Race.

Arcalis, trained by Howard Johnson and ridden by Graham Lee, won the opening Letheby & Christopher Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival today.

WILD PASSION arrived safely at Sandown yesterday from Noel Meade's yard in Co Meath and is all set for his big head-to-head with Marcel in the ladbrokes.com Tolworth Hurdle at the Esher track tomorrow.

MEDIA PUZZLE and Vinnie Roe, first and fourth respectively in the 2002 renewal, head Dermot Weld's six-strong squad for the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington on November 2.