THE jeweller responsible for making the Cheltenham Gold Cup has offered his sympathies to Raymond Mould after the 1988 trophy won by Charter Party was stolen yesterday morning.

Connections of Bindaree will postpone his retirement and instead head for the Welsh National in December and the Grand National next April.

The managing director of Arlington Properties has told the Mahon Tribunal that payments the company made to former Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor were consultancy fees and not political donations.

The managing director of Arlington Properties, the firm behind the failed Bachelor’s Walk project in Dublin, is due to give evidence to the Mahon Tribunal today.

DETAILS of confidential plans by a British development firm to acquire several properties in Dublin city centre appeared in a front page article of the Irish Times in 1989 within 48 hours of the company turning down a request for a political donation to Fianna Fáil from Padraig Flynn.

THE theory of six degrees of separation states that any two people in the world can be linked through only six moves of mutual connection.