A sideways glance at the political year gone by.

SORRY is still the hardest word for Taoiseach Brian Cowen, who refused to apologise to taxpayers for pouring billions of euros of their money into failing banks on Bailout Tuesday.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

EURO LEADER, absent for some three months, is napped to take the Denny Gold Medal Handicap Chase at Tralee this afternoon.

TWO Irish meetings this evening house no less than 16 races between them and certainly selectivity is the key word for anyone hoping to make a profit.