Colm Cooper has dismissed the theory that the success of Kerry’s senior footballers are papering over the cracks at underage level.

HE weighed up the options when asked for a word.

US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has returned home to her astronaut husband, leaving behind a Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her in the head five months ago.

DJIBRIL CISSE’S future will be thrashed out on the day Sunderland secure their Premier League status.

TWICE Oscar-winning director David Lean, whose films also include Doctor Zhivago and A Passage To India, chose the Dingle Peninsula as the location for Ryan’s Daughter because of its rugged scenery and the Atlantic backdrop.

MEMORIES of heady days in the late 1960s when the cinematic epic Ryan’s Daughter was shot on the Dingle Peninsula will be recalled when one of the stars, Sarah Miles, returns next month.

THOUSANDS of British youngsters taking part in a hiking challenge were airlifted off Dartmoor yesterday.

Neans McSweeney

ANYBODY who has been closely watching Clare hurling evolve in the post-Loughnane era would have understood if Cyril Lyons had gone on the attack after his side’s impressive win over Tipperary in the opening round of the Guinness Munster championship.

A new print of Ryan’s Daughter, the 1970 epic love story directed by David Lean is being screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles next month.