Eoin Quigley jokes that he hasn’t been put forward for interview since the week prior to the 2012 county hurling final.

Tommy Barker says as city prices soar, theres’ value left in easily commutable rural locations.

ISABELLE GREY

THE Irish voters will be asked this year to choose a new head of state.

IRELAND manager Giovanni Trapattoni left hospital last night and declared himself fit and ready to mastermind Ireland’s Euro 2012 double header against Armenia and Andorra next month.

Rose Martin on a top-quality home all ready for new owners.

THE house, the trees, the site and the river. Hard to sum up all the attributes of this sale at Rocklodge, Co Cork, because there’s so much in it.

Tim Pitt is to restart his training career at Norton Grange Stables near Malton in North Yorkshire.

Hollywood star Owen Wilson is reportedly romancing the 23-year-old niece of Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace.

OVER recent years there is a perception that the West should fear the extremists, that our democracies could not stand up to their ire and that we should avoid upsetting them, be they religious or political.

Champion owner David Johnson believes his Well Chief is “the one to beat” in the major two-mile chases this season.

Ballyhale Shamrocks 3-20 St. Martin’s 3-8

A Slovak rock band was jailed today for inciting racial hatred through their lyrics.

Nearly half a million people were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Frances swirled toward Florida today just three weeks after Charley’s devastating visit, threatening to deliver the most powerful double punch to hit a state in at least a century.

WHAT an extraordinarily contradictory and hypocritical attitude to emigration highlighted in the Christmas Eve edition of the Irish Examiner.

Three new age travellers on trial for the murder of a man on a mountainside in Leitrim in 1998 have had pleas of manslaughter accepted by the DPP.