After Leicester winning the English Premier League in recent weeks, our world has taken a different shape and now I’m “absolutely sure” the following will happen in the next 12 months:

RTÉ’s Morning Ireland announced that Ireland didn’t get past the Eurovision semifinals again.

Am I the only one who finds the new VHI radio ads a little unsettling?

Appeals have been lodged in relation to planning approval for a major mixed development at the ESB headquarters near Dublin City centre.

News that the US and Cuba are to restore full diplomatic and commercial relations, after a Cold War-style prisoner swap, as detailed in ‘Secret US meetings with Cuba pay off’ (Irish Examiner, December 19), is the latest foreign policy misstep by US President, Barack Obama.

Planning notes

This weekend the Eucharistic Congress is being held in Dublin.

A Dublin couple have picked up a cheque for €250,000 at National Lottery offices.

DID you hear the latest nonsense from cloud cuckoo land by the Minister of Public Works, Brian Hayes?

A 84-YEAR-OLD retired lorry driver has brought a legal challenge over the Law Society’s refusal to compensate him for more than €500,000 after his daughter, a solicitor, allegedly misappropriated money from the estate in which he was the main beneficiary.

Parcel delivery company UPS is closing a call centre with the loss of 200 jobs because it cannot find multi-lingual staff in Ireland, it announced today.

Rents have increased by nearly 12% over the last year according to a study carried out by one of Irelands busiest property websites Daft.ie.

SEVENTY jobs are to go in Dublin and Cork though employees have been spared the worst from thousands of job cuts announced by the telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent.

Gardaí in Dublin are asking for the public’s help in discovering the whereabouts of 19-year-old girl who went missing overnight.