I was going to write 1,200 words about Richard Dawkins, a man whose behaviour incensed me beyond words last week. The more I thought about it, the more I thought he wasn’t worth it. Instead, I want to write about Joe Kavanagh.

Scientist Richard Dawkins has become embroiled in another Twitter row, claiming it would be “immoral” to carry on with a pregnancy if the mother knew the foetus had Down’s Syndrome.

Queens Park Rangers 1 Derby County 0

Derby County 0 Chelsea 2

Derby 0 Chelsea 2

Repubic of Ireland defender Richard Keogh put the icing on the cake for Derby as they cruised to victory at the renamed iPro Stadium this afternoon.

An Appetite For Wonder

Richard Dunne, Eric Lichaj, Andy Marshall, Jean Makoun and Simon Dawkins have been released by Aston Villa, the club have confirmed.

Aston Villa could be without Republic fo Ireland defender Ciaran Clark and also midfielder Karim El Ahmadi again when they face Norwich tomorrow.

Aston Villa striker Darren Bent is nearing a return to full fitness ahead of the visit of Fulham tomorrow.

Aston Villa 0 Manchester City 1

Olivier Giroud returned to the Arsenal starting line-up as Arsene Wenger looked to end a nightmare week on a high with victory over Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium.

Aston Villa playmaker Charles N’Zogbia has recovered from the thigh injury suffered during the closing stages against West Ham in time for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League encounter at Arsenal.

Aston Villa midfielder Fabian Delph has recovered from an ankle injury after a two-game absence and is included in the squad for Sunday’s home Barclays Premier League fixture with West Ham.

The Face of God

David Coleman begins Bullyproof, a new three-part series dealing with the topical issue of bullying, Tuesday on RTÉ One at 10.15pm.

Dermot Bannon returns in a new series of Room to Improve tomorrow on RTÉ One.

Ryan Nelsen made his full debut as Tottenham looked to avoid an upset and move in to the last eight of the FA Cup with a win over League One side Stevenage at the Lamex Stadium.

Tottenham forward Rafael van der Vaart has been ruled out of tomorrow’s game against Newcastle after he failed to overcome the calf injury that kept him out of Monday’s draw at Liverpool.

New signing Louis Saha could make his Tottenham debut in Monday night’s game at Liverpool.

Many people see Richard Dawkins as an angry, arrogant atheist. But his area of expertise is evolutionary biology, not religion, JP O’Malley discovers

On Evil

THE Vatican yesterday said Pope Benedict was willing to meet more sexual abuse victims but not under media pressure and scoffed at calls that the Pope should be arrested when he visits Britain in September.

David Lewis-Williams

Turkey was condemned today for cyber censorship – and for being the only country in the world which bans YouTube.

SEVERAL recent reports have highlighted how second-level students have underperformed in mathematics, science and technology.

IT IS an absorbing story of a celebrated pony breed with origins going back 2,500 years to the days of the Celtic warriors, and intriguing links old and new to a prince of the past and a Knight of the present.

MICHAEL FUREY (Letters, February 25) seems to assume that anyone who disagrees with atheism does not “think with their heads”.

IN his letter headlined ‘The Godless delusion, flights of fancy and pointless questions’ (October 22), Oliver Broderick makes a dismissive reference to Hitler and the myth of his Catholicism.

OLIVER BRODERICK (Letters, October 22) says he is going to ask Fr Con McGillicuddy for his bullet-proof vest to protect himself after his long dismissal of all Richard Dawkins’s “disciples” and the apparent lack of “evidence” to support Dawkins’s arguments.

THE letter from Fr Con McGillicuddy (September 17) really brought the Richard Dawkins’ disciples out in force with all guns blazing across your letters’ columns over the following weeks.

THE ENEMIES of Reason, a TV series by Richard Dawkins, is being shown by Channel 4.

ONCE upon a time and far, far away, there were these galaxies.

Residents of an historic “dry” community founded by Quakers were tonight celebrating after winning a battle to prevent Tesco selling alcohol near their homes.

Hundreds of salt-spreading trucks fanned out across New York City today as the region’s first major winter storm of the season threatened to drop up to 18 inches of snow, blanketing a wide swath of the Northeast US and New England.

Former So Solid Crew rapper Romeo has been cleared of assaulting a clubber in London's Leicester Square.

COLTS quarterback Peyton Manning is well on his way to building a National Football League post season reputation, piloting Indianapolis to a 38-31 triumph over Kansas City on Sunday to reach the American Conference championship game.