The brain may be better suited to a split cycle of sleep, reports Richard Fitzpatrick.

DISABILITY campaigner Kathy Sinnott told the congregation gathered at her 22-year-old son’s funeral Mass in Carrigaline, Co Cork, yesterday that her son “was always trying to understand life’s big picture”.

Phil Mickelson was in a league of his own in Atlanta as he produced the lowest 36-hole score of his 15-year US Tour career.

Phil Mickelson may have failed to hang on to two of his titles so far this season, but he made a sparkling start to his defence of the BellSouth Classic in Atlanta yesterday.

DARREN Clarke has admitted defeat in his bid to join Padraig Harrington as Ireland’s representatives in the World Cup in Seville on November 18-21.