ABOVE the giddy jingling of New Year’s bells rose the noisy jangle of newborn howls as maternity hospitals around the country kick-started the business of delivering babies in 2008.

The All-Ireland Poc Fada hurling event will take place on Saturday, August 4, at 12.30pm, it was announced today.

I AM a TV producer working on a television documentary about the Tailteann Games — a four-yearly major cultural and sporting event which took place in Dublin between 1924 and 1932.