CASHEL extended their advantage at the top of the First Division of the Munster Junior League as Clonakilty caused another shock in the Munster Junior Cup with a win over Sunday’s Well.

DEFENDING Willie O’Dea on Monday, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said: “I suppose Fine Gael are returning to type. They’ve always tried to get the dirt on people. I think it is despicable, to be honest.” Of course, he undoubtedly meant it is despicable to make false accusations.

FOR years the maxim of American business was: “As General Motors goes, so goes the nation.” Today there are fears General Motors is going bankrupt and this could have further enormous implications for the global economy. The whole thing emphasises the need for new political thinking in relation to the economy.

NOEL TUOHY, who has been entertaining Limerick audiences with his céilí and dance-hall music for nearly 50 years, has struck a new note in a remarkable showbiz career.

IN HIS memoir One Spin on the Merry-Go-Round, former government press secretary Seán Duignan recalls an episode involving Brian Cowen that, to many of those who know him, captures perfectly the next taoiseach.

SEAN DOHERTY’s wife had a major role in his decision to drop the bombshell that Charles Haughey was fully aware that journalists’ telephones were tapped in the early 1980s, former government minister Máire Geoghegan Quinn has disclosed.

The cash donations controversy has been the biggest crisis to rock the nine-year premiership of Bertie Ahern.