A glance at the week that was
The numbers
1,253The number of "smurfs" who gathered together in Castleblaney,
Co Monaghan, beating a previous world record
€28kThe amount awarded to a British businessman in a libel case, after he sued a rival who created a fake Facebook page in his name
16thDublin's place on the annual Mercer list of the world's most expensive cities
Galvin restart
Kerry captain Paul Galvin was hoping for a final ruling on his six-month ban from football, but "irregularities" in the original disciplinary hearing mean that he has to start the process all over again. Galvin's ban had been for smacking the notebook from a referee's hand last month, and the process has lasted six weeks so far.
He may now be back in time for Kerry's third-round qualifier match over the August bank-holiday weekend, providing the system isn't stuck in a feedback loop that will last the rest of the season.
You're nicked
For 13 years the Serbian authorities have "searched" for Radovan Karadzic, and this week they announced that they had found him living under the assumed name "Dr Dragan Dabic" - and behind an abundant beard - in Belgrade. A practising alternative-medicine quack, he had gone as far as attending conferences, writing articles and drinking in a local bar, whose walls featured a picture of how he used to look. Karadzic now faces 11 charges, including genocide, in a war-crimes trial in the Hague.
We now know
•A New Zealand judge made a nine-year-old girl a ward of court during a custody battle, so that she could change her name, which is Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.
•Last year, the Samaritans received a phone call every seven seconds.
•Ikea claims its Dublin store's opening will be "mothballed" for at least seven months due to the ongoing road-widening works on the M50. The store is now due to open in summer 2009.