US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ousted the US Air Force’s top military and civilian leaders today, holding them to account in a historic Pentagon shake-up after nuclear missile warhead fuses were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan.

Nuclear-armed missiles were flown across the US by mistake, military chiefs admitted for the first time.

HILL 16 was blessed for future generations on Monday, but yesterday’s titanic All-Ireland club football final between Ballina and Portlaoise should go a long way in converting the heathen to the creed of Gaelic football.

Million of dollars went up in smoke yesterday when the first test in nearly two years of a multi-billion dollar US anti-missile shield failed when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the Pacific.