They're the 11th Kingdom team to reach the decider since the competition’s inception in 2002.

Last weekend 17,000 people turned out in Limerick for the launch of the 20th anniversary tour of Riverdance. So where were you when Michael Flatley and Jean Butler took to the Eurovision stage that night in 1994?

SO WHERE’s the fire? Why the siren-wailing drama to appoint a new Republic of Ireland manager when we have nothing more serious than bragging to play for until next September? (On that point, why would we want May’s friendly opponents, Serbia, going back telling their cousins in Montenegran how good those Irelanders are?)

EMPLOYERS’ group IBEC yesterday launched its €500,000 campaign to promote a Yes vote in the Nice Treaty referendum and said a repeat of last year’s rejection would isolate us in Europe.