A MAN was last night still in critical condition in hospital after being beaten up in a row that began as a minor dispute over hurling.

A WELL-KNOWN Catholic organisation has given awards to two cardinals and a number of bishops who have gone against the Vatican and agreed people threatened with AIDS can use condoms.

THE big fleet had a slow passage in the annual race from Cobh to Blackrock as light winds and frequent rain showers arrived instead of the expected very fresh south easterlies. Indeed the race even had to be shortened to a finish-line a little east of Blackrock Castle; a wise decision with the trip across the two-and-a-half mile stretch of Lough Mahon’s open waters very slow.