You’d almost feel sorry for Donal Conway.

HE’S reinvented himself and hung in there when few others believed it was worth his while. So is Clyda’s Clydesdale Paudie Kissane finally about to get his just reward? He spoke to sports editor Tony Leen

Obesity, ill discipline and the state of Kerry football. Just the headline acts in a two-hour chat with Pat Spillane. Michael Moynihan did the listening.

Paul N “Red” Adair, the world-renowned oil well firefighter who revolutionised the science of capping exploding and burning wells, has died, his daughter said. He was 89.

Fighting around the southern Iraq oil fields that US-led forces had previously thought were secure has driven out civilian firefighters trying to put out blazing wells.