IT has to be rare for a team of such depth and experience to produce such error-ridden fare for so long and remaining standing in the Championship.

CRATLOE, competing in the Munster Club SHC for the first time, bowed out at the semi-final stage yesterday, losing a tight, tense, game to Ballygunner at Walsh Park.

WHEREVER you turn in the Eternal City there are relics of glorious times. Reminders of great battles.

A “pit bull in lipstick” electrified the Republican Party’s national convention and savaged Barack Obama in a “dynamite debut”, US political pundits said today.

Eminem has praised rapper Proof, who was shot dead earlier this week, for his “guidance and encouragement,” calling him “my best friend,” in a posting on his website.

THE controversial Services Directive cleared its first hurdle when the European Parliament voted for it by a clear majority.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair will tomorrow tell the European Parliament how he intends to manage his six months at the EU helm.

THE weeks since the election and the start of the silly season have seen some interesting exchanges between the Government and the opposition, and indeed within the Government, about political policy and positioning.

SELDOM has a starting fifteen been awaited with such apprehension in Kerry.

Clare 2-16

THEY are finally closing in on the Holy Grail. Yesterday in Croke Park, 25 years later, what they once called intestinal fortitude - and the width of a post - guided Armagh to the gates of the Promised Land.