Ante-post favourite Thomas Edison heads owner JP McManus’ assault on the Guinness Galway Hurdle at the Ballybrit track on Thursday.

Ireland is likely to get little more than €15bn for the banks it has pumped €28bn of taxpayers’ money into as part of a deal the Government hopes to agree later this year with the EU’s bailout fund.

IN his letter (January 5), Seamus Coffee provided a parable of how our tax system works using an example of 10 men at a bar.