A hundred gardaí took part in the Paris Marathon today to raise money for the charity Goal.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is off in the land of Goudy and Ronaldinho this week so veteran substitute Allan Prosser is called from the bench to hold the ring while our contributors slug it out.

IT was a knife-edge battle of wits when two secondary schools went head-to-head in the final of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz yesterday.

THE judge’s direction to the jury in the Nigerian circumcision case was simply amazing (Irish Examiner, October 8). They were not to judge the defendant with any “white, western values”.

Holder Bill Buckley Jnr of Erry, Co. Offaly, faces 80 rivals when he bids to retain the All Ireland Men's Pitch and Putt Strokeplay Championship at St. Stephen’s, Glanmire, Co. Cork tomorrow.