NOT long before Christmas, newspapers, radio stations and TV networks were abuzz with some exciting news: the male pill could soon be a reality.

WHEN you come in from the cold on a winter’s day, there is nothing so inviting as the warm, heady aroma of a mulled drink simmering away.

There are few crops that can be sown in October and will grow overwinter in Ireland, but autumn varieties of onions, (Allium cepa) are one of the select few.

No matter how big or superficial it gets, we can always freestyle with that off button.

FOR much of the last century in Ireland, TB was the AIDS of its day, a scourge that ravaged the country.

JOHN OXX’S Juliette can show her appreciation of a drop in class by landing the Golan EBF Give Thanks Stakes, a Listed race for fillies, at Cork this afternoon.