NOWHERE to run, nowhere to hide. As the rain came pelting into their tanned faces in the final quarter of Sunday’s international in Lansdowne Road there was surely only one thought running through the heads of the beleaguered Aussies — please referee, blow it up.

Up to 45 people were believed killed after a series of coordinated explosions struck major Shiite Muslim shrines in the Iraqi city of Karbala and in Baghdad today as thousands of pilgrims converged for the final day of a major religious festival.

THE prospect of a fourth term in jail is looming large for Liam Lawlor after the Planning Tribunal repeatedly accused him yesterday of being “less than truthful” about his knowledge of a Czech property company called Zatecka.