I’m sick of being coerced into kindness.

AS a former student of Celtic Ireland, an amateur photographer, and a translator of Lady Gregory’s Complete Irish Mythology into Hungarian, I wish to protest against the motorway in the Tara valley.

Harry Redknapp and his network of scouts were today spread across Europe as Portsmouth prepare for a frantic week of transfer activity before the January window closes on Saturday night.

Italian premier Berlusconi provoked uproar in the European Parliament today by telling a German critic that he should star as a Nazi concentration camp guard in a film.

Yasser Arafat is considering appointing a prime minister to share the running of day-to-day government affairs once a Palestinian state is declared after a planned January election.