Waterford were well in contention at the interval.

Yet, a modern analyst would probably focus more on slack defending than anything else, with both sides needing to shore up their rearguards if progress is to be made in the remainder of the league and into the championship.

Simon Coveney has shown that his is prepared to risk his political neck in order to do the right thing, writes Victoria White.

Derry 2-12 Monaghan 1-13: Dessie Mone suffered a suspected broken wrist as Monaghan lost out to Derry for a place in Saturday’s McKenna Cup final.

UK Chancellor George Osborne’s plans to slash corporation tax, in the battle for overseas investment, would wipe out the effects of Brexit and boost FDI by more than 10%, a think-tank claims.

St Pat’s Maghera 2-14 Summerhill, Sligo 3-10: St. Pat’s Maghera are through to the Hogan Cup final after staging a late comeback to edge past a devastated Summerhill College Sligo team at Brewster Park in Enniskillen yesterday afternoon.

Accumulated profits at the media firm owned by celebrity economist David McWilliams jumped last year by over €250,000.

Aid trucks and ambulances entered Syria from Turkey yesterday to deliver food and supplies to tens of thousands of people fleeing an escalating government assault on Aleppo, as air strikes targeted villages on the road north to the Turkish border.

I would like to see fairer delivery of justice and a review of the imbalance in distribution of the country’s wealth during the coming year.

A hotel that found itself ‘underwater’, and which had to be bailed out by foreign money, was an apt spot for economist, David McWilliams, to expound on matters financial.

Efforts by celebrity economist David McWilliams at exploiting his brand are paying off, with accumulated profits at his media firm last year jumping by over €20,000 to €629,846.

“Knowing it all isn’t a crime, particularly if you have the personality to carry it off.”

Derry were denied a first NFL win of the season by Tyrone’s late surge at Healy Park.

Rock ‘n’ roll arrived at the Oireachtas banking inquiry yesterday. It came in the form of David McWilliams: He Who Foretold The Crash.

The bank guarantee should have been designed as a temporary measure until losses in the banks could be determined, the economist and broadcaster David McWilliams told the banking inquiry yesterday.

The Banking Inquiry has been told that former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan felt he could not believe the advice given by his own advisors.

The 2008 blanket bank guarantee was a “fix up” designed to give “insolvent” Irish institutions emergency funding they should never have received, with the “politically biased” error ultimately forcing the ECB to impose the November 2010 bailout when the full crisis emerged.

Dhara Kivlehan was given a photograph of her newborn baby Dior just before she was transferred from Sligo Regional Hospital to Belfast four days before her death, an inquest heard yesterday.

Come back and write another chapter, Daphne. That’s what Victoria White kept thinking as she stared in horror at the security fencing which now surrounds the Puxley Mansion outside Castletownbere. She explains why.

Full-back Niamh Briggs has applauded the Irish support in France and at home, and hopes Ireland’s Rugby World Cup adventure continues to gain momentum.

As foot-in-mouth merchant Silvio Berlusconi finishes his first week of community service, Dave Kenny picks some examples of other people who’ve been in hot water with the political correctness brigade.

If exasperated headmaster Enda Kenny thought expelling Blueshirt bad girl Lucinda Creighton to reform school was going to make her change her ways, he was very much mistaken.

The media firm owned by one of Ireland’s best known economists, David McWilliams last year increased its accumulated profits to €609,778.

IN ancient times, people consulted soothsayers, tea leaves and the intestines of freshly slaughtered animals to see the future. These days, people believe economists can do that for us.

Under the hammer

A tie which used to belong to John Lennon is among the rare items set to go under the hammer at the Beatles 22nd Annual Memorabilia auction.

Celebrity economist David McWilliams is enjoying a personal boom during the bust, with his main firm enjoying record profits last year.

Galway 1-15 Derry 0-15

Galway 1-15 Derry 0-15

With disgraced banker Seán FitzPatrick’s puppet banished to the storeroom of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for legal reasons, Anglo: The Musical could easily have been a case of Hamlet without the prince.

SuperValu yesterday announced contracts worth over €80m with 104 Irish suppliers for 2012 as part of the continued rollout of its own-brand range.

Lehman was followed in quick succession by Merrill Lynch, and then by the world’s largest insurance group, AIG.

Holy Trinity claimed their second All-Ireland Vocational Schools SAFC title, exacting revenge on champions Gallen, who beat them in last year’s semi-final.

A commanding first half performance helped Holy Trinity College record a comfortable victory over Clonakilty Community College in the All-Ireland Vocational Schools’ SAFC semi-final at St Conleth’s Park on Saturday.

Centra has announced it will add approximately 300 jobs and 20 shops to its network in 2012.

TWO first-half goals from Raymond Wilkinson, the first of them after just 43 seconds, guided Ballinderry to their 12th Derry SFC title yesterday.

TWO phrases that I heard recently have been going around and around in my head.

THE public wine tastings featured here last week — and the suggestion that wine fans shouldn’t miss the opportunity — all still rings true.

HOTEL room prices in Dublin plunged 11% to almost €120 last year, falling at one of the fastest rates in the world.

A leading economist said today that the incoming Government should call a referendum to allow the people to have their say on the country's bank debt.

THE arrival of Shane Ross, journalist, author and senator, into the general election campaign, seeking a Dáil seat in George Lee’s old constituency of Dublin South, is not just significant in itself: it could lead to other similarly minded individuals pitching themselves to the electorate, offering themselves as new legislators to add to the public voices they already use.

LAST week David McWilliams had his one-man show, Outsiders, in Tralee. I have never been much of a theatre-goer and the idea of spending an hour and a half listening to one person was not particularly appealing, especially when I tend to become decidedly restless, if the priest goes on even for 10 minutes with a Sunday sermon.

ECONOMIST David McWilliams has warned the Irish economy will “vaporise” if the Government presses ahead with its four-year austerity plan.

ECONOMIST David McWilliams has launched a stinging attack on the pay and pension received by former National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) boss Michael Somers, saying “a monkey” could have done his job.