JULIAN WINN, a former winner of the FBD Insurance Rás, will have a powerful new ally when he bids for a second title on Sunday week, with Yanto Barker an exciting addition to the Wales Stena team.

DUBLINER Jennifer O'Brien did not need the threat of the controversial ban on smoking in the workplace to give up nicotine after smoking an average of 40 cigarettes a day for the past 22 years.

A PARISH priest in Co Meath has come up with a novel form of penance for lapsed Catholics, which is tantamount to casting their children into an educational limbo.