Mirror, mirror on the wall — who’s the fairest of them all? Neither of yesterday’s finalists. And they will tell you that themselves.

Feast day of St Guinoch, St Martin I, pope, Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice, St Hermenegild, and St Martius.

TRAWL through your memories of Ireland’s famous away days of the recent past and games like Copenhagen and Seville in ‘93 or Amsterdam and Lisbon in 2001 probably come somewhere near the top of the list.

GARY KASPAROV, the world’s top-ranked chess player for the past 20 years, has announced his retirement from the professional circuit.