We should really be thankful Martin O’Neill is a smart, media-savvy man who seems happy to let other people bask in the attention.

After her acclaimed performance in The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Orla Fitzgerald was expected to determinedly pursue a film career.

WHEN the prosecution’s forensic expert Geraldine O’Neill recounted how she examined the hall-marked cocaine recovered from Dunlough Bay it was possible to make different calculations about the street value of the bales which had been floating in the Atlantic.

TWO men on trial over Ireland’s biggest-ever drugs seizure were arrested after a garda found the pair walking among cattle on a west Cork country road, a court heard yesterday.