INCLUDED in the guest list on the final “Late Late Show” of 2011 were Gabriel Byrne, Diarmuid Gavin, CT Wilkinson and the RTÉ concert Orchestra. All are Irish.

A FEW weeks ago we had the US president here, Barack Obama, and he left us with a new catch-cry — Is Féidir Linn.

The familiar combination of John Oxx and Mick Kinane were in the winner's enclosure at Leopardstown as Karasiyra stuck to her guns in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden.