A wombat the size of a car has been discovered in Australia.

ARTS and Culture Minister Jimmy Deenihan got a public but polite rebuke yesterday from Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara when he broached her age at a function she attended in Co Limerick.

THOUGH the prognosis is positive and the picture will be a lot clearer tomorrow, novenas are already being offered around Munster for Ronan O’Gara’s knee injury, and the hope that it will clear up sufficiently for the province’s Heineken Cup semi-final against Saracens on Sunday week.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument

THE US TV network behind the cartoon South Park yesterday defended a controversial new episode that lampoons dead crocodile hunter Steve Irwin.

AS usual, James Lawton, columnist with the London Independent, didn’t mince his words.