RAY CARROLL is lucky: he does something that allows him plenty of time to think.

JUST as the nation was celebrating the European Championships silver medal won by Cork runner, Derval O’Rourke, another Irish athlete gave Ireland something to cheer about at the weekend as part of a record-breaking rowing team.

A TEAM of three Irish and 11 British rowers last night smashed the world record for the fastest journey in a boat across the Atlantic.

TWO brothers were locked up in a dog cage when their father used drugs and when they were being punished, and one had to wear a shock collar, authorities said.

Louth 3-14 Leitrim 1-11