I bags the top bunk! World leaders faced a tussle for the two top suites at the Lough Erne Resort ahead of the G8 summit, which begins today.

IN RETROSPECT the introduction of civil partnerships to this country was remarkably calm and civilised.

The number of overseas visitors to Ireland increased in 2011 for the first time in four years.

“YES, I said yes, I will yes,” — er, actually, I won’t bother. I’ll just pretend to have read it instead.