EXOTIC names of places like Kabul, Kandahar and Khartoum were on the lips of many Irish people not only during the past 20 years but also in the 1870s and 1880s.

GREET the new year, same as the old year, as The Who almost sang.

IT’S difficult right now to say what poses the greatest threat to the integrity and reputation of sport, and its central place in the lives of hundreds of millions of people.