ELAINE Hyland left her home soon after 9am on December 12, 2006. She was accompanied by her two daughters, aged four and two. The older girl was being dropped to school.

THERE’S a moment in Ken Burns’ outstanding documentary series, ‘Baseball’, when Buck O’Neil, an old coach and manager, muses on the impossible glamour that was Manhattan in the 40s and 50s with a faraway look in the eye.

Martin Scorsese returns to form with yet another gangster movie, but this time he may finally break his Oscar duck with The Departed (EIV, €24.99), a searing drama centred around mobster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) and cops Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon).

BY this evening, the Mayor of Seville may be reduced to a quivering, trembling wreck. Estimates that 50,000 Celtic supporters have travelled to Spain for tonight’s UEFA Cup final are considered conservative by the most seasoned followers of the Bhoys.