THOSE who are concerned with the absence of ‘Christian values’ in the Lisbon Treaty would do well to remember that Hitler and his Nazis were purported Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, while the Czar of Russia, deposed in the revolution of 1917, was another whose ‘Christianity’ did little to benefit the serfs.

JOHN MURPHY enjoyed the biggest success of his seven-year training career when Newmill won the Grade Two MacLochlainn Road Markings Ltd Kinloch Brae 'Chase at Thurles yesterday.