Forget butter — Rubberbandits’ strong Limerick accent cuts through international language barriers at gigs all over the world, Blindboy Boatclub said yesterday.

Let’s imagine for a moment that we’re on the cusp of the next great space race.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a giant star exploded in a flash of light so blinding the scene of destruction can still be seen here on Planet Earth.

Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

In football’s catechism of cliché it is customary to claim that some one-season wonder is “frighteningly good”.

People across the country have reported seeing a large meteor-like object shooting across the sky last night.

Countdown To Bedtime by Penny Dann (Caterpillar; €11.93).

WE got a real glimpse into the Irish political soul last week with the row over stag-hunting and dog-breeding. Just imagine trying to explaining it to a foreign observer.

Leaders of the world’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide today agreed to seek measures to limit global warming to 2C, but failed to seal a deal on reductions in greenhouse gases.

Another documentary – in a week of new releases heavy on the documentary boom in mainstream screenings – from the we’re-all-doomed school, though here the world-in-crisis message is given an unusual twist by Armstrong.

GROUCHO Marx famously sent the Friars’ Club a telegram: “Please accept my resignation. I do not want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”

WHAT a superb editorial (‘Intimidation like this is unacceptable’, December 22). At long last somebody in the mainstream media has told it like it is about Bertie Ahern, Fianna Fáil and their conduct in relation to the Mahon Tribunal.

A film about a nightmarish Britain in which mankind is dying out and the country is torn apart by mass immigration has screened to critical acclaim in Venice.

Channel 4’s “cosmonauts” are convinced they are in space and gazing down at Planet Earth.

Premiership clubs will bide their time before plunging into the transfer market this summer as the money men keep a tight grip on the purse strings.