If anyone needed assurance, regarding the worth of Paul McGinley as a Ryder Cup vice-captain, and his potential as a European Team captain, then you only had to watch him interact with Medinah rookie, Nicolas Colsaerts.

GARDAÍ have made a breakthrough in their investigation into a gun attack at a pub in which people were nearly killed.

THE relieved mother of a doorman spoke of the “miracle” of her son coming out of a coma after gunmen had left him for dead after firing a bullet into his head.

Cork's All-Ireland U21 football-winning captain Colm O’Neill has been named as the 2009 Cadbury Hero of the Future at an awards ceremony in the Player’s Lounge in Croke Park.