The chorus was a marvel of focussed pitch and blended tone: in the opening bars, the sopranos immaculately pierced the air.

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The pulsing drum beat and brawny guitar riffs in the opening bars of "Feel So Fine" kick off the album with an impressive gusto.

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Or Dooley Wilson's opening bars of "As Time Goes By"?

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The Magners League may be sponsored by a Tipperary cider company, but as the fixture has been scheduled for Good Friday, it fell foul of laws preventing the opening of bars on the Christian holy day.

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Turtle excluder devices, or TEDs, consisted of a set of bars and an opening in the trawl net: shrimp passed through the bars, but anything large enough would hit them and be guided out through the opening.

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It means we're getting ever closer to the opening of the new bars, restaurants, shops and cinema that we've all been waiting for.

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New restaurants and bars are opening daily.

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Piccolo Bar Cafe, which opened in the 1940s and swiftly developed a reputation as a hangout for local jazz musicians, still attracts a loyal crowd and has provided a blueprint for the growing number of new cafes, bars and restaurants opening in the streets and laneways off Darlinghurst Road.

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From 2003, licensing laws put the clubs in England and Wales in the same category as cafes and bars, meaning they could only be stopped from opening if they attracted crime, were a nuisance or endangered the public.

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