IT’S 6.30pm, Thursday, and my husband and I are yawning at each other across the kitchen table.

A beagle pup that spent two nights at the bottom of a disused mineshaft has been hoisted to safety in a dramatic rescue.

Passion. Spirit. Fire. Brimstone. All the words so commonly associated with a good Limerick hurling performance before Sunday and afterwards.

DAVY RUSSELL can surely now be described as champion jockey-elect, following a splendid double at Thurles yesterday.

ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 in Moscow, Roxanne and Clarke Loper and their two -year-old daughter Alexandria posed for a photograph to mark the end of a three-week trip costing $25,000 to adopt the orphan from Kazakhstan.