“Let’s give Madrid something to think about”. Yes, let’s. Who the hell are Brighton, for starters.

Opel has been having a hard time of it over the last decade or so.

One of the first things you learn booking flights for this summer tour is that contrary to the initial IRFU missive announcing Ireland taking on the USA en route to Japan, is that it ain’t on the way to the Land of the Rising Sun.

Sean O’Riordan examines how the government is willing to turn a blind eye to some incursions into our territory by other nations but finds others to be unacceptable

When John Dolan attended an outing with Muskerry Vintage Car Club, he was struck by the number of members driving classic Fords.

Back in the day when Ford, in its infinite wisdom, decided to introduce a ‘European’ version of a car which was originally conceived and designed for the American market, the giant US car-maker invariably made a complete horse’s collar of it, writes Declan Colley

I will make a full and free confession at once, and get it off my chest.

Here are the programmes worth watching tonight.

Here's what to watch on tonight's TV.

Kayser Soze, Kevin Spacey’s memorable villain in ‘The Usual Suspects’, delivered one of cinema’s greatest lines 20 years ago when he reasoned the devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Uh-oh. This is bad…

It was a Stanley-Livingstone moment, right enough, two intrepid travellers from the old world meeting up in the steaming heart of the Amazonian rain forest.

THIS week we take a trip down memory lane in a car which will still — hopefully — resonate with many readers.

“It’s very… American, isn’t it?” Baseball is a cornerstone of Americana that has helped me get past that attitude.

A remarkable Singles Sunday at the Ryder Cup in Medinah wasn't just a case of ‘what if’ for the USA. A series of fortunate twists diverted the Big Mo to Olazabal’s Europe. Was Seve watching, asks Simon Lewis?

When Kilkenny and Galway finished all square in their initial All-Ireland hurling final meeting four weeks ago, there were more than a few writers who leaned instinctively on that brilliant old quote about how a draw was like kissing your sister.

Paul McGinley fully acknowledges he is widely regarded as a red-hot favourite to become the first Irish captain of the 2014 European Ryder Cup team.

ONCE upon a time Ireland had a fine healthy population of working scarecrows.

NO wonder the spirit of volunteerism is dead.

BY NOW, the egg-chasing is well under way; interminable weeks of mismatches and dead rubbers before any half-serious participant starts all over again in the quarters.

DARREN CLARKE’S stirring British Open success can act as an inspiration to European golf’s top ladies when they face a seemingly invincible American side at Killeen Castle next month.

ONE lucky sailor was rescued after falling overboard during the Sovereigns Cup in Kinsale yesterday.

SCHADENFREUDE is not, perhaps, the noblest of human emotions. Moreover, revelling in the tribulations of other clubs can be regarded as being a tad ‘small time’, if you overdo it.

A CHANGE of pace saw standings across the 13 classes tighten into two distinct groups: the outright battles for first place in some, and clear favourites in others. Light winds are again expected today while there will be possible near-gale conditions tomorrow.

WHAT a sublime-to-the-ridiculous week for travelling Reds.

COLIN Montgomerie may surprise us but it is difficult to believe he would include two people among his assistants at Celtic Manor next October who have never played in the Ryder Cup.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

LIE still and stay skewered, damn you. Don’t you just hate it when the sacrificial lamb gets up and blows a big fat raspberry in your leering face? It’s too late in the day for me to start acting the uberfan.

MARK TEIXEIRA and Hideki Matsui shook the New York Yankees from their slumber and sent the World Series to tonight’s third game in Philadelphia tied at 1-1.

TWO managers under fire go head to head”. That’s how Saturday’s game was described in the big build-up.

RATIONALISATION, how could football live without it?

IN my youth, school days would pass with the agonising crawl of a John Terry train of thought.

THE Beijing Bureau (Aquatic Division) have been moaning about their 6.30am start to watch fit young women training in the superb swimming complex.

THERE was a time in Ireland when people made a wonder of the fact that households in America could have one, two, or even three cars.