THE market for wine is like a pyramid: tiny quantities of rare and expensive stuff on top; rather a lot of widely available inexpensive wines in the middle, and cheapies competing on price at the bottom.

A DELEGATION from Cork signed a memorandum of understanding with one of China’s most pro-business cities yesterday.

NEWS will have reached you that former baseball star Mark McGwire recently confessed to using steroids, though news may not be quite the right word.