IRELAND has become a nation of wine drinkers in a very short time but the wines we drink now are quite different to those sampled in the mid-2000s.

ALLEN Carr, who once smoked 100 cigarettes a day before giving up the habit and becoming a world expert on how to quit, has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

WHEN two experts take polar opposite viewpoints on the same simple subject, what chance the rest of us?