On Twitter, Jessica Martin said: "Cannot actually believe what's happened!
Back home, his wife, Mary, given the news that Tom was missing, presumed wounded, refused to accept the inevitable.
As talks resumed at Stormont to revive the assembly, under the chairmanship of the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, and junior Irish foreign minister Tom Kitt, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness urged the hardline DUP to strike a deal as quickly as possible.
In 1952 we visited Villa Park and the Villa manager, George Martin, asked our manager if we had any promising players.
Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, refused to call a halt to this odd situation (which internally is now referred to as Nespressogate) even after being warned in writing more than a year ago by the joint leaders of the Green Group that coffee farmers in Latin America are facing "a real hunger crisis".
Bialkowsky saved from Martin Olsson but the ball found its way to Howson at the edge of the area.
Reader, I didn't: I went and read a New Yorker profile of Professor Mary Beard's travails with misogynistic trolls instead.
Invoking Martin Luther's "Here I stand" may have been his own idea but dwindled without "I can do no other," which in the circumstances might have brought disbelieving giggles.
The original piece described Mary Hanafin as the deputy prime minister of Ireland; she is not.
Mr Martin Flannery, past chairman of the Tribune Group and Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough, said : "We accept it as a term of praise but we wouldn't like it to be interpreted to suggest South Yorkshire is a microcosm of some state in Eastern Europe".
