Kya deLongchamps takes us through some moments in the fascinating history of lost masterpieces.

His success in the WGC Bridgestone Invitiational has made Shane Lowry a bona fide star of world golf, but followers of the European Tour will remember when he burst onto the scene in 2009, winning the Irish Open as an amateur at Baltray.

It may have been a year of Olympic and Paralympic medals, of another Irish golf Major and a breakthrough All-Ireland but it was Jonathan Wilson’s book on Brian Clough that got me thinking about Shane Lowry.

SO THIS Government dies as it has lived — to the sound of ravenous dogs feeding off what’s left of Ireland’s economic carcass.