While Kilkenny fans are used to All-Ireland build-ups, it’s been a while for long-suffering Galway fans.

MUSIC NEWS: Lock up your children! David Guetta, and Example headline tonight’s dance event in Marlay Park, Dublin, and as we predicted in the wake of the Swedish House Mafia trouble, the powers that be are queuing up to get tough with those awful young people.

A man in his 30s has today been arrested by gardaí investigating the death of a woman in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, last Friday.

CHINA ROCK justified strong market support when comprehensively getting the better of Sizing Europe in the Star ‘Best For Racing Coverage’ Chase at Punchestown.

CREDITORS of an insolvent taxi firm owned by rogue financier Breifne O’Brien have been told that they are unlikely to receive any money owed to them.

A COURT yesterday paved the way for Anglo Irish Bank to sell off the assets of alleged pyramid scheme operator Breifne O’Brien in a bid to reduce his alleged €13 million borrowings to the bank and its subsidiaries.

PEOPLE are flocking to food fairs around the country.

PERHAPS some of your readers may be able to help me. My brother is working on a book about Irish Victoria Cross winners.

THE loyal Irish husband of British Home Secretary David Blunkett’s ex-lover defended his pregnant wife yesterday.

Tiger Woods – now only the world’s third-best golfer – and Swedish bride Elin Nordegren came ashore on a skiff today from a yacht where they spent their wedding night after a sunset ceremony at a luxury Barbados’ resort.

THE secretary of a Fianna Fáil cumann, who yesterday admitted he was one of 15 people that signed a register approving the nomination of a former party member and independent election candidate, could be expelled from the party for his actions.

Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, Mary Harney has described today’s budget as a ‘radical and reforming budget for Ireland’.

The scare over Foot and Mouth Disease is spreading to continental Europe. A suspected case has been found on a pig farm in Belgium and in France a farm near Lyon is under quarantine.

Three Romanians are being held in Waterford Garda Station after they were discovered in a cargo container.