BOTH campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they know nothing about a new campaign advertisement airing on YouTube that attempts to cast the Democratic frontrunner and New York senator as Big Brother.

WINSTON SMITH sat in the bar, alone as always, the glass of gin in his hand. The smells were familiar to him, the smells of boiled cabbage and damp.

‘THE BROTHER’ was a comic but credible character created after the Second World War by the great columnist Myles na gCopaleen, kept alive nowadays in a superb one-man show by actor/comedian Eamonn Morrissey.

SWITZERLAND’S noble Saint Bernard dog, famous through the centuries for rescuing avalanche victims buried in the Alps, is finally bowing its sad, massive head - the fabled barrel around its neck now replaced with a ‘for sale’ sign.

JOHN OXX’S Montevideo is fancied to defy top weight in the Fitzsimmons Property Finance Handicap at Naas this evening.

GARDAÍ have launched a fourth inquiry into alleged child sexual abuse at a centre which housed orphans and boys with learning difficulties.

A retired Roman Catholic clergyman at the centre of one of Ireland’s most notorious church-linked child sex abuse affairs was controversially released from prison today.

A 30-year-old Waterford man, who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother, is to begin a civil case against the religious order today.

Big Brother's new housemate has been dubbed Posh Josh.