The threat posed to democracies by transnational corporations and their relentless demands for ever more “competitiveness” and low taxes is, says Susan George, a challenge to social stability. Neil Robinson agrees.

Pádraig Pearse’s pioneering morse code announcement, Twink in lingerie on the Late Late and Miley getting it on with Fidelma in Glenroe feature in Dave Kenny’s magic moments of Irish broadcasting.

ACTOR Simon MacCorkindale, who starred in TV’s Casualty, has died after a four-and-a-half-year battle with cancer, publicist Max Clifford said yesterday.

George Best’s grave is being kept under 24-hour guard, it was revealed today.

TV hosts Richard and Judy defeated Paul and Heather McCartney in the celebrity special of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.