Not even the man who battled an evil empire in a galaxy far, far away could save the Kingdom — and so Sam Maguire will be residing in the capital for the next year.

A teenage boy whose drinking first caused concerns when he was 7 has been given a five-month sentence over an assault and a mugging in Dublin City centre.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern agreed yesterday that a mathematical formula, developed by his legal team to show a controversial lodgement in the mid-1990s was made in sterling, did not stand up to scrutiny.