Wye Oak’s Andy Stack speaks in a low, reflective murmur. "We sort of burnt ourselves out touring our last album," he says.

Mourners have started paying their final respects to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the US almost a week ago.

Micheal O Muircheartaigh obviously has high hopes for his new four-legged friend. Upon retiring from his GAA commentary role last September, the Irish Greyhound Board announced that they would present him with a greyhound and the dog was handed over at a function in Shelbourne Park yesterday afternoon.