A glance at the week that was
Good record
A Galway judge declared this week that prosecuting restaurants for selling alcohol on Good Friday would be "ludicrous" and "ridiculous".
Judge Mary Fahy said that while the State and Garda were technically correct in bringing prosecutions against nine restauarants, she wasn't going to record a conviction. "If people want to go out for a meal on Good Friday I would have thought they could have a drink with their meal."
Presumably, it would have be white wine, to go with the fish.
Clean sweep
Westport, Co Mayo won the Tidy Towns competition for the third time this decade, scoring 303 points out of a possible 400 and pipping Birdhill,Co Tipperary by just one point.
Birdhill,though, was named Ireland's tidiest village; Kenmareis our tidiest small town and Ennisnabbed the prize for Tidiest Large Urban Centre.
A special award was presented to Glenties, Co Donegal for its outstanding contribution to the competition over 50 years.
"I'm bitterly disappointed and frustrated" -Irish athlete Derek Malone after being told he wasn't disabled enough to compete in a Paralympic soccer match
We now know
Women have significantly more nightmaresthan men, according to a survey of 170 people carried out in England
Thailand's PMhas been ordered to resign after hosting TV cookery shows, despite being barred from having business links
Guinnessis believed to have chosen Leixlip, Co Kildare as the site for its new brewery
The numbers
0The number of Mayo people who said "yes" to a consumer survey asking if they will cut back on socialising to save money
7The number of Liverpool footballers whose homes have been burgled while they were on international duty. Robbie Keane is the latest victim
37Lance Armstrong's age when he returns to professional cycling three years after retiring