HARD to imagine Lar Corbett or John Mullane coming out with that one and, indeed, neither did. The pithy statement was, rather, the summation of one of the players from a team known as the Wild Geese as they left the field following a game on Saturday.

AN Irish-based subsidiary of US online giant eBay sustained a pre-tax loss of €2.7 million last year in spite of revenues increasing by 37% to €53.4m.

Lindsay Lohan’s estranged father has denied selling her private diaries.

AN Irish-based subsidiary of US online giant eBay sustained a pre-tax loss of more than €9 million last year, despite increasing its turnover to €50m.

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s ancestry has been traced back to a shoemaker in a small Irish village.

THE Clintons are not noted for inhaling, but the latest news of Barack Obama’s Irish roots must have been met with more than a sharp intake of breath.

A key sponsor pulled out of an alternative media festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and six video game makers withdrew entries in a freedom of expression row, after organisers rejected a game depicting the Columbine High School massacre.

Doctors in the US have successfully separated four-year-old twin sisters born fused at the midsection, with just one kidney and one set of legs, and were continuing with reconstruction surgery.

A former air traffic controller with a British firm will face possible charges in Colorado after being suspected of planting homemade bombs outside five homes.

A team of US doctors has implanted a new kind of artificial heart pump in a patient in Greece that is smaller, longer-lasting and expected to cause fewer clotting problems than similar devices, a hospital said.

A YOUNG Irishman working for the US Air Force died suddenly while playing sports last weekend.

INSURGENTS threatened to behead a kidnapped US Marine and a Pakistani driver unless the Americans release all Iraqis in “occupation jails,” according to a videotape on Arab television.

A MAN convicted of trying to sell moon rocks stolen from NASA over the internet has been jailed for nearly six years in Florida.

A man convicted of trying to sell moon rocks stolen from Nasa over the Internet has been jailed for nearly six years in Florida.

THE ability to laugh at himself has always been one of Darren Clarke’s more likeable traits.

Kidnapped teenager Elizabeth Smart, trapped in the hills above her anguished family’s home for the first two months of her disappearance, may have been kept from escaping or crying out for help by the growing influence of her captors, police said.

A 15-year-old American girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months ago was found alive walking down a street with a drifter who had once done work at the family’s home.

AN 11-year-old girl, who was raped and beaten with a hammer after being snatched from her bedroom, was in critical condition yesterday following nine hours of surgery.

Twelve Horses has appointed Craig Burton, one of the founders of Novell [Nasdaq:NOVL], as its President and CEO.