Local boy Billy Twomey delighted the capacity crowd at Millstreet International Horse Show yesterday when winning the €50,000 grand prix.

Ireland manager Robert Splaine yesterday had one piece of advice for Bertram Allen going into next week’s World Cup final: Play your usual game, writes John Tynan.

AS a veteran socialist/liberal commentator, Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, February 15) not surprisingly chooses to concentrate on the micro issues regarding lone parenthood — usually motherhood — in his take on Kevin Myers’ “disgusting article” in the Irish Times.

A SINISTER aspect of the Good Friday Agreement is the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between Fianna Fáil and communist-leaning Sinn Féin.

IT is utterly nauseating that the sovereign Government of the Republic of Ireland has now decided to relent to a political party — Sinn Fein — who instructed their supporters not to co-operate with either the RUC or the gardaí in the investigation of the Omagh atrocity

DEFENDING champions Colaiste Chriost Rí need just a point from tomorrow’s meeting with Dingle CBS to advance to the knock-out stages of the Corn Uí Mhuirí.

AS is usual with spin doctors, one must examine what is not said, as opposed to what is said, to fully inform oneself of the point that is being made.

THE belligerent and bare-faced equivocation of Danny Morrison and other Sinn Féin spin doctors, since Section 31 became inoperable, has now become part of the political landscape.

SEVERAL of the reasons given for supporting George W Bush’s recent visit to Ireland were mistaken.

DOES anybody else think that the policing of the 18-hour visit of George W Bush is completely over the top?

LIKE other socialist/liberal commentators, Harry McGee tries to shift the focus from the real problem with regard to the citizenship referendum to be held in June (Irish Examiner, April 23).

IN THE wake of the Tim Allen case it’s obvious that your deputy editor, Brian Carroll, and the Irish media in general, is out of touch with the public disgust over the lenient sentences for such crimes.