ONLY a short distance separated the church from the parochial house, barely half a mile along the sweeping boreen that skirted the top of the village, but Fr. Kennedy had lingered too long in the sacristy, fussing over details hardly worth the bother, and by the time the church was locked up and properly secured, night had already fallen.

The Irish are muscling in on French rugby conversation again. Ulster walloping Montpellier at the Stade Yves-du-Manoir last Saturday has catapulted Mark Anscombe’s squad into talk about eventual Heineken Cup winners.

AFTER two years of planning, Headstrong’s Jigsaw programme opened in Galway’s Mary St on December 1 last.

Pop punk Pink took heroin when she was a teenager, but she turned her back on the opiate aged just 16 as she focused on succeeding as a singer.