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Irish Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Tadhg Beirne voted OCC Consulting Men's XVs Players' Players of the Year
Munster captain Tadhg Beirne was voted OCC Consulting Men's XVs Players' Players of the Year 2025 at the Rugby Players Ireland Awards. But the Eadestown-born Kildare player was just one of the endless numbers of 'Leinster' players collecting/nominated for the 2024/25 season's of the other three nominees either play for or are from Leinster Caelan Doris, Tom Farrell (born Dublin) and Jamison out-half Sam Prendergast was named as the Nevin Spence Men's XVs Young Player of the Year and was presented with the award by his brother, Connacht Rugby captain Cian Prendergast, who was also born in nominees here were Gus McCarthy and Ben Murphy (born in Bray).Men's Seven Player of the Year Dylan O'Grady was a Leinster player before going into full-time Sevens from fellow Leinstr-born teammates Mark Roche and Niall Comerford. Ireland and Leinster captain Caelan Doris accepted the Druid's Glen Resort award on behalf of the team for their Six Nations Triple Crown the women's awards were unfolding Aoife Dalton won Aoife Dalton was named the OCC Consulting Women's XVs Players' Player of the Year with provincial teammate Niamh O'Dowd, Railway Union's Amee-Leigh Costigan and England-based Dorothy Wall as the nomineesLeinster's Erin King won the Women's XV Player of the Year ahead of fellow Leinster nominees Ruth Campbell and Aoife Leinster-based Dan Sheehan won the Mercedes-Benz Try of the Year for his score in an Ireland shirt against England; Railway Union's Anna McGann got the Women's XV Try of the Year award. Men's Award winner Beirne was unable to collect his award on the night but speaking from South Africa said: 'I'm honoured to be named as the OCC Consulting Men's Players' Player of the Year. It comes as quite a surprise given that Caelan, Tom and Jamison have all had brilliant seasons. "To be chosen by my fellow Rugby Players Ireland members makes this award even more meaningful, and I really appreciate their support and acknowledgement.'Dalton was named the OCC Consulting Women's XVs Players' Player of the Year following a hugely impactful campaign in the Irish midfield across 2024/25. At just 22, Dalton has already been established as a key figure in an Irish dressing room that is set to up the ante ahead of the Rugby World Cup in England later this year. Speaking as she claimed the Players' Player award, Dalton said: 'It's a very exciting time to be involved with this group of players. To be recognised by them at such a crucial time for this team is hard to put into words. "When I first came into camp, I could sense that something was beginning to build and I think we have started to see the fruits of that over recent months both collectively and individually, through the performances of my fellow nominees Amee-Leigh, Niamh and Dorothy.'There was a special presentation made to Eimear Considine who made a try-scoring return to international action following two ACL injuries and the birth of her son Caolán and who announced her retirement during the season. To mark both her Irish sporting legacy and longstanding contribution to mental wellbeing discourse in Ireland, Considine was presented with the Zurich Contribution to Irish Society Award as Tackle Your Feelings kicked off its ten-year anniversary Players Ireland Executive Board Member, Iain Henderson said: 'While this season has brought its share of challenges both on and off the field, it's also been a year marked by plenty of individual standout achievements across the game. It's important that we celebrate them and use this as an opportunity to look ahead with real optimism. There's still work to do, but through the support of Rugby Players Ireland, the steps being taken show a collective commitment to moving the game forward.' Simon Keogh, CEO of Rugby Players Ireland added: 'A Rugby Players Ireland Award represents the highest individual accolade a player can receive in our game. To be named by your peers in this way is the ultimate mark of respect. My congratulations to all of our winners tonight. At Rugby Players Ireland, we work to ensure players' voices and efforts are recognised and supported. These awards celebrate not only talent but the influence and standards set behind the scenes that help to drive our game forward.' OCC CONSULTING MEN'S XVs PLAYERS' PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025Tadhg BeirneNominees: Caelan Doris, Tom Farrell, Jamison Gibson-Park OCC CONSULTING WOMEN'S XVs PLAYERS' PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025Aoife DaltonNominees: Amee-Leigh Costigan, Niamh O'Dowd, Dorothy Wall NEVIN SPENCE MEN'S XVs YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025Sam PrendergastNominees: Gus McCarthy, Ben Murphy ENERGIA WOMEN's XVs YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025Erin KingNominees: Ruth Campbell, Aoife Dalton MSL MERCEDES-BENZ BALLSBRIDGE MEN'S XVs TRY OF THE YEAR 2025Dan Sheehan (v England)Nominees: Stewart Moore (v Stormers), Dan Sheehan (v Ulster Rugby) AIB CORPORATE BANKING WOMEN'S XVs TRY OF THE YEAR 2025Anna McGann (v Italy)Nominees: Amee-Leigh Costigan (v England), Linda Djougang (v Wales) TRITONLAKE MEN'S 7s PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025Dylan O'GradyNominees: Niall Comerford, Mark Roche TRITONLAKE WOMEN'S 7s PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025Lucinda KinghanNominees: Hannah Clarke, Kate Farrell-McCabe ZURICH CONTRIBUTION TO IRISH SOCIETY AWARD 2025Eimear Considine DRUIDS GLEN HOTEL & GOLF RESORT MOMENT ON THE YEAR 2025Ireland's Triple Crown Success accepted by Caelan Doris About Rugby Players IrelandRugby Players Ireland, as the representative body for Ireland's professional rugby players, consistently strives to make Ireland the best place in the world to play rugby. Rugby Players Ireland is working towards achieving this vision by ensuring that player welfare is always prioritized and that there are fair and equitable terms and conditions for players. The association also adopts a whole of life approach to player development and ensures that the profile enjoyed by Ireland's rugby players contributes to the future development not just of Irish rugby but Irish society as a whole.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
K-9 graduation: Congratulations, patrol tracking class of 2025
WARNERS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — After ten weeks of training, three police agencies in Central New York graduated their newest four-legged rookies. For the handler, having a K-9 partner can be like having a co-worker you can't get rid of but come to love like family. 'It goes both ways. Some days you're like this is going great and some days it's like you're annoying me right now. It's like having a family member,' Sgt. Jeff Neal with the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office said. Now that training is over, the three K-9s that graduated will join their handlers at the City of Rome Police Department, the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office, and the Syracuse Police Department. For the Syracuse Police Department's newest rookie, there is a special meaning behind his name, Dalton. K-9 Dalton was named after Rod Dalton, who passed away, but was the go-to guy for the K-9 Unit. 'He's the guy you know so much about, he was so involved in the K9 unit, and I just thought if we're going to name the dog after someone, I want it to be him,' Officer Victoria Losurdo, Dalton's handler, said. K-9 Dalton has high energy, is very friendly, but is always dead set on the task at hand. Officer Losurdo is excited to get on the road and see how all of her and Dalton's hard work and training pay off. The K-9s and their handlers will spend the summer on the road before going back to school in the fall to specialize in either narcotics or explosives. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
‘India's strategy should be to make Pakistan as irrelevant as possible'
Published : May 29, 2025 18:32 IST - 16 MINS READ On May 10, the India-Pakistan ceasefire went into force after four days of cross-border hostilities. As can be expected after each conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, analysts from both sides are making all kinds of claims. With propaganda being one of the weapons in the arsenal of both countries, truth is often the casualty. As time progresses, claims, counterclaims, and inputs from Western sources are expected to provide a better picture of what happened during Operation Sindoor. Ramanathan Kumar, a former Pakistan analyst with India's foreign intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), spoke to Frontline to discuss this and understand what happens now between India and Pakistan. He headed the Pakistan desk of R&AW for many years and has also served as a counterterrorism specialist. Edited excerpts: Now that the ceasefire seems to be holding, what happens next between India and Pakistan? We are in a somewhat familiar situation, which Dalton and Perkovich once famously described as 'Not War, Not Peace'. We are still very much on the razor's edge—this can still go anywhere. It is, after all, just a pause in what happened between May 7 and 10. Unless the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's foreign intelligence agency] ceases all infiltration forthwith and pulls back the terrorists who are already in the Valley, there could well be another terrorist attack either in Jammu and Kashmir or elsewhere in India. If that happens, India will be compelled to respond at a time and in a manner of its choosing, as happened after the Pahalgam attack. On the other side, in the persona of the newly promoted Field Marshal Asim Munir, the Pakistan Army has an uncompromising and ideologically oriented Chief of Army Staff [COAS] who will not hesitate to retaliate in equal measure to the Indian response. So there could well be an even more serious escalation the next time around. I would agree with the well-known Pakistani commentator, Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, who once said that any optimism is currently unwarranted. What happened during the military hostilities between May 7 and 10? Can we arrive at some truth between the claims and the counterclaims? First and foremost, there is a great deal of disinformation in the public domain, which has to be discounted. I don't want to repeat blow-by-blow all that has happened, but I will highlight some key points. Commercially available satellite imagery, which is a neutral umpire in these situations, shows that we were successful in conducting precision strikes on several Pakistani military installations, including Bholari Air Base, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, and Nur Khan Air Base. Whereas Pakistan doesn't seem to have inflicted any noticeable damage at the sites which it claims to have attacked. On the other hand, the government of India has not released any information in the public domain about the aircraft that Pakistan claims to have downed. Hence, it is not possible to make a meaningful assessment about this. Pakistan certainly believes that it downed some aircraft, which explains the upbeat mood in the country and possibly the conferment of the rank of Field Marshal on COAS Asim Munir. From reports available in the international media, it does appear that the combination of the J-10 fighter aircraft and the PL-15 missile supplied by China to Pakistan did have a significant impact on the outcome of the conflict, especially during the initial stage on May 6-7. Going forward, the possibility of Chinese military assistance to Pakistan in key domains such as electronic warfare, airborne warning and control systems, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance—thereby blunting our advantage in the event of a conventional conflict—will be a matter of great concern. A well-known military analyst has described this not as a two-front war, but a 'reinforced single-front' conflict, with the Pakistan front being reinforced by China. You referred to disinformation: Indian television channels were making all kinds of claims that Karachi had been bombed, pilots had been captured, Lahore had been taken, there was a coup in Pakistan.... Propaganda has always been there, but this takes it to a rather fantastic level, does it not? It sure does. Propaganda experts often say that for propaganda to be truly successful, it is best to mix a little bit of fiction with a large amount of fact rather than the other way around. I'll just leave it at that. Also Read | Asim Munir becoming Field Marshal bad for Pakistan, and regional stability: Lisa Curtis You mentioned the claims and counterclaims: they claim that they hit our airbases. The commercial satellite imagery tells a tale of the damage India inflicted. Do you think there was enough for both sides to claim victory and then arrive at this ceasefire through American help? I would agree with that fundamentally. There is enough for both sides to claim some kind of victory, and that is what made the ceasefire possible, with some nudging from the Americans, which we will talk about at greater length. What does the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty mean in the long term? Is this going to be a big issue between India and Pakistan? This is a fundamental issue. In international law, there is a well-known principle of rebus sic stantibus [things standing thus]—that if there is a fundamental change in circumstances, the parties to a treaty can call it off. We have made a point that when the Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960, there was no cross-border terrorism. Then there are the sheer environmental changes, which have drastically affected the melting of the glaciers, the population increase, so on and so forth. So there are many grounds to say that there is a fundamental change in circumstances. But we should look at the other side also. It has been said by several perceptive observers that it is an animal fear of undoing which explains a great deal of Pakistan's irrational behaviour, its inveterate hostility, and its aggressiveness. So it is a fundamental point that needs to be deeply considered. When their very existence is at stake—or at least that is the interpretation that Pakistan will put on it—will this compel them to learn salutary lessons, or will it increase the irrational behavior and their aggression? It's very difficult to arrive at a definitive conclusion. As Professor Christine Fair wrote in her book In Their Own Words:Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the possibility of holding the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance sounds like an opening salvo short of declaring war. But it will likely threaten Pakistan's core interest, which is the survival of the state itself. In that situation, Pakistan will possibly be compelled to respond with whatever means it has at its disposal. People like Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT] leadership have mentioned this threat of stopping water several times as a justification for what they do. There was a famous tract published by the LeT in 2004 called 'Hum Jihad Kyun Karte Hain' [Why we pursue jihad], written by someone called Bin Muhammad. There were eight main justifications given for LeT's jihad against India. One was the self-defence of Muslims. The second was another country abrogating or walking out of treaties signed with Muslim countries. From the LeT's point of view, that was adequate justification for jihad. So as a country, this threat will linger over the issue of water? As a counterterrorism man, I can definitely say that in the motivational speeches of the LeT leadership to attract more recruits, along with their litany of grievances, which they seek to exploit, this water business will also be included. Just by way of background, this Indus Waters Treaty actually cannot be abrogated. It can only be replaced by another treaty, which is why the government of India has used the word 'in abeyance'. Now, it has been suggested from a reasonably high level in India that Pakistan was informed, and it was expected that since India was only targeting terrorist camps, maybe the Pakistan Army would sit this one out. Do you think that is a realistic way of looking at a possible Pakistani reaction? Knowing Pakistan's DNA, that really could not have been on the cards. Remember, we are talking of a country where if we conduct five nuclear tests, they will not rest content unless they've carried out six. To expect that there would be no retaliation from Pakistan is not being realistic. We were very clear, careful, calibrated, measured. We said our strikes were non-escalatory in nature and we had struck non-military targets. But knowing Pakistan, it could not have been expected that they would also confine their retaliation only to civilian or non-military targets. There are no equivalents of sites like Muridke and Bahawalpur on our side. So it stood to reason from a Pakistani point of view that they would strike at whatever they could, including military targets. That would set in motion an escalatory chain of events, which is exactly what happened. In Balakot in 2019, we hit one site. During Operation Sindoor, India struck at nine places. Given that terrorist groups are still active and the known posture of the government of India, how do we expect the Modi government to respond to the next terrorist attack? I can't speak on behalf of the government. But as a dispassionate observer, one can say that the government will be under pressure from sheer public expectation. We've seen a lot of jingoistic and immature posturing from both sides who think that confrontation and conflict are a substitute for finely balanced statecraft. This immature posturing, public posturing, media pressure, propaganda—these create pressure on the governments on both sides. These unrealistic expectations tend to box the government in and narrow the government's options. That is not a very happy situation for any government to be in. A certain degree of expectation management—the government will have to think of doing that to manage the expectations and keep them real, so that it retains a certain flexibility of action. That will be a key challenge going forward. One sense is that Pakistan does not have the ability to retaliate and that it will roll over. That seems to have been helped along by sections of the media and their reportage during Operation Sindoor. That is a completely unrealistic expectation to think that Pakistan will simply roll over. This is high-decibel propaganda, wishful thinking, ignorance of basic facts and ground realities. Pakistan rolling over is a very unreal possibility. If I may go back into history, in 1971, we accomplished what we had to as far as East Pakistan was concerned in spectacular fashion. But we did not widen the war to West Pakistan. Why was that? One reason was the Cold War context, the possibility of the superpowers getting involved. But apart from that, there is a very lucid passage in Mr Jairam Ramesh's book, Intertwined Lives: P.N. Haksar and Indira Gandhi, where he quotes a note written by Mr Haksar, who was the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. Mr Haksar very clearly says that to roll over Pakistan, to finish the job, we would have to go into Pakistan as an occupying power and put boots on the ground. This would mean that we would have our garrisons in Lahore, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Karachi. This would be an absolutely nightmarish proposition, which nobody in their senses could even contemplate. If that was the situation in 1971, well before the nuclearisation of Pakistan, you can rule that out ab initio now. These are completely fantastic scenarios which have no bearing on reality. 'Pakistan has always been—it remains—obsessed with India. So our strategy should be to make Pakistan as irrelevant as possible.' You referred to nuclearisation: Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not for show. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's famous comment about eating grass and developing a nuclear weapon—there is something very intrinsic. Being a little skeptical about the limits of this sub-nuclear conflict, how much can India actually push the envelope, or do we even know how much we should push the envelope? At the end, all nuclear signalling is a matter of bluff and counter-bluff. It's all in the mind. There are many mind games at the core of it. Even the very possession of nuclear weapons is a supreme act of blackmail because they are not meant to be used. It's purely a deterrent. Coming specifically to the India-Pakistan context, if I might go back about 20 years to Operation Parakram, when we had the attack on the Indian Parliament and we amassed our troops on the border in a threatening posture. In the end, it all fizzled out. One of the things we discovered was that because of the way our army is deployed, many of our formations were stationed inland. So the mobilisation was slow, and it took a lot of time for them to reach the border. We thereafter developed what Pakistan calls 'Cold Start', although there is no such formal term that is used by us. We started shifting our forces closer to the Pakistan border so that the next time there was a similar situation, our offensive formations would be able to move into Pakistan very quickly. What did Pakistan do to counter Cold Start? They developed what are known as battlefield nuclear weapons or tactical nuclear weapons. The threat is that if you move your offensive formations into our territory to any depth, and if the existence of our state is threatened and we are under threat of physical dismemberment, we will not hesitate to use small tactical nuclear weapons. When Pakistan came up with this concept, they said, now that we have battlefield nuclear weapons, we have eliminated the space completely for any kind of conventional conflict whatsoever. You cannot now have conventional conflict in Pakistan. Conversely, from our side, there were experts and strategists who argued that despite Pakistan's nuclear threshold, there is space for conventional conflict. We've seen that logic play out in this situation. We did use conventional military means despite the fact that Pakistan brings the N-word into play all the time. From Pakistan's point of view, the effort was to close this window, and that is exactly what the Chinese assistance to them has done—to close this window of conventional military conflict as much as possible. It has been a bit of a draw. It has shown that there is still scope for some military conflict under the nuclear overhang. But it is quite possible that next time around, that window will become even smaller. On May 10, there was a Reuters report that suggested that the Nuclear Command Authority in Pakistan was going to meet. A few hours later, when the phone calls started going from Washington, DC, to Islamabad and to Delhi, there was a denial of the story. The alarm bells did start ringing in world capitals. The threshold was probably when India expanded its attacks, and maybe the Nur Khan air base that was struck was something quite serious as far as the Pakistanis were concerned. We have to factor in this nuclear threshold, the role of the Americans and other influential players. I certainly agree. This is the fundamental limitation of a strategy of overt military action against a covert proxy war, which is what is being pursued by Pakistan—the escalatory potential quickly attracts unwelcome international attention with all its attendant complications. We saw that in this case. What—72 or 96 hours—was all that it took before the rest of the world began to think, and the Americans in particular, that both sides were quickly ascending the escalatory ladder. The experts say that there are 23 steps in the escalation ladder. Clearly, they felt that the rungs were being mounted rather quickly and rather alarmingly. All this leads me to the point that precisely because of the escalatory potential and the prospect of unwelcome international attention, which we have always tried to ward off, the argument can well be made that other non-escalatory options in the covert domain may perhaps be more effective in persuading Pakistan to give up what is essentially a self-defeating exercise of pursuing a covert proxy war against us. This has progressively brought diminishing returns to Pakistan over a period of time. Pakistan's covert proxy war against us is best fought by a covert counter-proxy war, and that war really has to be one in the shadows. Also Read | When Indo-Pak tensions go high-tech, it's the people who pay the price This bilateral bogey—the Shimla agreement that was signed, which the Pakistanis say they are not going to respect, though they have never respected it to begin with. Everyone knows the reality of how Kargil ended. Everyone knows the reality of how Operation Sindoor ended. Why should we keep pretending? We should be open that there are influential players who can influence behaviour and we should factor that in any decision making. What do you think? Certainly, it has to be factored into any strategy that we pursue. I entirely agree. The issue that decision makers have to grapple with is, at what point do other players come into the equation? How long can they be held off? Can they be held off till as long as it takes for you to achieve a certain objective? Even in 1971, these questions were there as to how long the conflict can be kept going before the Americans and the Russians get involved. You're absolutely right when you say that, fundamentally, this has to be one of the key points that has to be factored into our decision-making. Turning to Pakistan internally, the promotion of Asim Munir as Field Marshal is signalling to the people of Pakistan and to India that they have achieved a major success. Does this give Munir and his civilian proxies, the Bhutto-Zardaris and the Sharifs, far more legitimacy in Pakistan? Yes, all the evidence suggests that what happened has given a fresh lease of life to the Pakistan Army in particular. By all accounts, its popularity and that of then-General Asim Munir were at a historically low ebb because of Pakistan's own internal difficulties and crises on multiple fronts. For the time being, at least, a euphoria has been generated, rightly or wrongly, which has put the Army on a new pedestal. It has all but ensured that Field Marshal Asim Munir will be at the helm of affairs for the foreseeable future in Pakistan. It perhaps represents a setback to Imran Khan and his people, at least for the time being. From our perspective, one negative fallout is that it brings the military and the civilian leadership closer together, despite a completely lopsided relationship. Our fundamental interests are best served by not having them on the same page, or at least putting as much daylight between them as possible. That has clearly not happened—it is the other way around. Any concluding remarks on this current round of the India-Pakistan conflict? In conclusion, Pakistan has always been—it remains—obsessed with India. So our strategy should be to make Pakistan as irrelevant as possible under the circumstances so that it recedes further and further back in our rear-view mirror. This is something that we have done over the past few decades. In our quest to become a developed nation by 2047, Pakistan can become a strategic distraction. That is something we should not let happen. Amit Baruah was The Hindu's Islamabad-based Pakistan correspondent from 1997 to 2000. He is the author of Dateline Islamabad.
RTÉ News
3 days ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Tadhg Beirne and Aoife Dalton recognised at Rugby Player Ireland awards
Tadhg Beirne and Aoife Dalton were the big winners at the Rugby Player Ireland awards, claiming the men's and women's top prizes, respectively. The Munster man beat off competition from Tom Farrell, Jamison Gibson-Park and Ireland captain Caelan Doris, while 22-year-old Dalton was recognised for her eye-catching displays at centre to see off the claims of Dorothy Wall, Amee-Leigh Costigan and Niamh O'Dowd. Beirne, who is set for his second Lions tour this summer, has been a rock of consistency at both provincial and Test level. Unable to collect his award as Munster are in South Africa to take on Sharks in this weekend's BKT URC quarter-final, the 33-year-old said the award was both an honour and unexpected. "It comes as quite a surprise given that Caelan, Tom and Jamison have all had brilliant seasons," he said. "To be chosen by my fellow Rugby Players Ireland members makes this award even more meaningful, and I really appreciate their support and acknowledgement." Dalton scooped the OCC Consulting Women's XVs Players' Player of the Year following a hugely impactful campaign in the Irish midfield across 2024/25 and is likely to be a key figure for the women in green at the Rugby World Cup in England later this year. Having made a try-scoring return to international action following two ACL injuries and the birth of her son Caolán, Eimear Considine - pictured above - announced her retirement during the season. To mark both her Irish sporting legacy and long-standing contribution to mental wellbeing discourse in Ireland, Considine was presented with the Zurich Contribution to Irish Society Award as Tackle Your Feelings kicked off its ten-year anniversary celebrations. Another to make their comeback this season was Dan Sheehan who picked up from where he left off upon his return with a powerful effort against England for which he took home the MSL Mercedes-Benz Ballsbridge Men's XVs Try of the Year. Anna McGann was the winner of the AIB Corporate Banking Women's XVs Try of the Year for finishing off a sweeping team effort against Italy in the Six Nations. Having been ruled out of the Rugby World Cup later this year, Erin King was given a morale boost by her team-mates who voted her as their Energia Women's XVs Young Player of the Year. It follows her World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year last November. Meanwhile, Leinster and Ireland out-half Sam Prendergast was named as the Nevin Spence Men's XVs Young Player of the Year, with previous winner and Connacht captain Cian Prendergast on hand to present the award to his younger brother. Further accolades were presented on the night to Dylan O'Grady who was named as the TritonLake Men's 7s Players' Player of the Year, and Lucinda Kinghan who was named the TritonLake Women's 7s Players' Player of the Year. Ireland's Triple Crown success was named as the Druids Glen Hotel & Golf Resort Moment of the Year with Irish captain Caelan Doris closing out the evening by accepting the award on behalf of his team-mates.
3 days ago
- Business
Fuji Media Denies Dalton's Claim of No Discussions
News from Japan May 28, 2025 20:31 (JST) Tokyo, May 28 (Jiji Press)--Fuji Media Holdings Inc. issued a statement Wednesday denying the claim of Dalton Investments, a major shareholder in the Japanese media group, that it has refused to hold discussions on the U.S. investment firm's proposal regarding board members. Fuji Media said it has engaged in sincere dialogue with Dalton a total of 64 times, including by email, phone and in-person meetings. Fuji Media's management and Dalton have each proposed more than 10 candidates to join Fuji Media's board, ahead of the Japanese company's general shareholders meeting on June 25. In response to Fuji Media's rejection of Dalton's candidates, the U.S. firm has said it was regrettable that Fuji Media decided to oppose all of its candidates without holding discussions with it. Fuji Media also rejected Dalton's proposal to spin off its real estate business, saying that it has unique strengths as a media-affiliated real estate developer. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
