However, Taylor attended an Irish Amateur Boxing Association news conference a day later to publicise the National Elite Championships taking place on 22 February but left the event still unaware that the European event had been put back until 2014.
(She later made a well publicised and, I hope, very humiliating retraction).
In 2004, Brock founded Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog that helped to bring down Glenn Beck, a Fox News host given to hysterical outbursts, and later helped to publicise comments about "legitimate rape" made to a Missouri TV station by Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin.
Far less publicised, a year later, was the unravelling of the police case.
More than a year later, no arrests have been publicised and the ICO has repeatedly refused to discuss its inquiry, code-named Operation Spruce.
2006: States of Jersey Police begin a long-running covert investigation into child abuse, which is later dubbed Operation Rectangle and publicised in 2007.
Nine days later, and with his departure widely publicised, he wrote again to say that his previous letter was never intended as a statement of resignation.
His reform agenda lost its focus, his fondness for compromise began to look like weakness, his highly publicised dalliance with (and later marriage to) Carla Bruni became a huge distraction and his popularity slumped.The story of the past year looks better abroad than it does at home.
At a less well publicised Sotheby's sale three days later, six Banksies sold for a total of £447,000.
In 1987, a commission from the French ministry of culture to design a garden at Versailles was cancelled, after the editor of an art magazine publicised what she saw as an unhealthy fascination with Nazi iconography in his work (Finlay later sued and won nominal damages in a French court).
