No, I don’t know the names of the Brass Neck 10. I do have a list, of course. Everybody does. How many are on your list? Mine has 13 people on it. One way or the other, I’m tearing it up.

AUTHOR Salman Rushdie received an apology in court yesterday from a former policeman who libelled him in a book about his time in hiding under a fatwa threat.

THIS bank holiday weekend was doomed from Saturday morning. That was when I noticed Gay Mitchell had changed colour. He was flesh-coloured on his election posters last week. This week, he’s turned a spectacular seasick green.

SCRUFFY’S St. Paul’s qualified for the semi-final stages and a clash with the three time winners, Bausch & Lomb Wildcats after an impressive 77-67 victory over XLR8 Auto Drimnagh Dynamos in an exciting quarter final of the ESB Women’s Cup in Killarney.

Today's basketball results.

BASKETBALL can be a funny old game. A couple of months ago, BurgerKing Limerick, then the reigning Cup champions, were more or less dismissed as a force in the ESB SuperLeague but, while they have no chance of lifting that trophy, they are once again the centre of attention and they are loving it.

TOMORROW week Notre Dame and Mardyke UCC Demons will face up to each other in what promises to be a spectacular ESB National Cup semi-final but the respective coaches will be bidding to put that at the back of their minds as they face into critical SuperLeague engagements.