The expected cross-country debate never materialised at the Athletics Ireland General Congress which finished ahead of schedule at the Moran’s Silver Springs hotel in Cork on Saturday, where Ciarán Ó Catháin was re-elected as president for a further two years.

As one news outlet correctly surmised, women’s boxing already had a star.

SIX hundred people gathered in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery yesterday to mark Christmas for those children laid to rest at the “angels” plot.

A doorman guarding a republican social function at the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin was shot dead while trying to fend off a loyalist bomb attack, an inquest heard today.