A hotel in Dublin yesterday apologised to Garth Brooks fans for getting their hopes up.

THE last week was a country music song, performed during a surreal interlude in a cranky summer. We had achy breaky hearts, and forlorn love and a concert that up and died, only to be revived, by either Jesus or Enda Kenny, depending on who you want to dropkick you through the goalposts of life.

An independent public inquiry is the only means by which the full facts in the GSOC bugging affair can be revealed, writes Mick Wallace

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

People in one Kerry town have discovered that there’s more than just waste food in their bins — there’s lots of money that could have been better spent.

SATURDAY

WHEN, as children, my pals and I roamed the bogs, river banks and lake shores of Tipperary, Mayo and Donegal, we regularly came upon curlews’ nests and I’m afraid we may have sometimes filched an egg or two for our collections.

AFTER Ryan Tubridy, can RTÉ Radio 1 get any more inane? Well, with its newly announced schedule, it just has.