Holywood golfer’s assertion last September that he felt more British than Irish was met with a consternation that bordered on the ridiculous.

A top Olympian feared Irish athletes competing in the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games would stage an IRA-inspired demonstration.

WITH reference to Richard Collins’ article (‘Sturgeons are the missing link,’ Irish Examiner, February 6), experts such as Dr Alan Feduccia (author of ‘The Origin and Evolution of Birds’) have long acknowledged that Archaeopteryx is fully bird, and not part-reptile: “Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur."

NA PIARSAIGH young lions John Gardiner and Setanta Ó hAilpín have been given starting positions on the Cork team for Sunday's glamour