Charlie Mulqueen Tickets to the Masters tournament at Augusta are as precious as gold dust and usually available only to long-standing patrons and the very privileged.

Helen O’Callaghan hears about a new Irish product for children.

A bionic hand has allowed a young mother to do essential everyday tasks for the first time since losing fingers to sepsis.

Good luck with the job hunt, Euan.

Independence campaigners are are using their creative talents to forge a new national identity, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Scotland interim head coach Scott Johnson has promised his side will not underestimate an inexperienced Ireland team in this Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations showdown.

A schoolboy died in a tragic freak accident after he sustained a fatal injury during a fall from his bike.

SO Ireland has a new head of state.

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses as they continue their investigation into the tragic death of an eight-year-old boy from West Cork.

THE Scottish Rugby Union have confirmed Euan Murray will sit out Scotland’s opening RBS 6 Nations match because of his religious views.

The Scottish Rugby Union have confirmed that Euan Murray will sit out Scotland’s opening RBS 6 Nations match because of his religious views.

Ireland tight-head John Hayes has been called up to the British & Irish Lions squad in the aftermatch of Euan Murray's injury.

GORDON D’ARCY’s slim Lions prospects were eliminated yesterday when head coach Ian McGeechan confirmed he would not be calling up a replacement for the injured Tom Shanklin.

IT was one of the longest, slowest goodbyes in British political history.

THERE will be some interested parties wishing to assess Argentinean international full back Francisco Leonelli in the Magners League clash between Connacht and Glasgow Warriors at the Sports Ground to-night (6.30).

Fathers’ rights campaigners today said they had been warned to stay away from Downing Street amid fears of a plot to kidnap Tony Blair’s youngest son.

Rugby star Gavin Henson’s spiky barnet has been voted the best celebrity hairstyle of 2005.

A French court today handed an eight-month suspended jail sentence to a volunteer firefighter, and a £100,000 (€147,500) fine to an apartment operator, following the death of an eight-year-old Scottish boy killed when he fell down a lift shaft.

BEAMING proudly on the steps of Number 10 for a third — and final — time the Blairs yesterday offered a rare glimpse of a family that has grown up largely away from the public eye.

The UK's main parties were engaged in an intensive effort today to get their supporters out to vote in the general election that will decide whether Tony Blair wins a historic third term.

A heroic father told today how he saved his family from the killer tsunami by strapping them into a palm tree using beach towels.

Investigators in Egypt were today trying to discover the cause of a plane crash in which 141 people are feared to have died near the resort where the British Prime Minister Tony Blair is on holiday.

The father of a baby boy who was murdered in a British high street shop was continuing to be questioned by police today.

Cherie Blair today admitted that convicted fraudster Peter Foster had helped her buy two flats in Bristol at a discount and said any “misunderstanding” between No 10 and the media on the issue had been entirely her fault.

CHERIE BLAIR was last night recovering after suffering a miscarriage, Downing Street said. The wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair was taken to hospital after falling ill at Number 10 last night.

Titanic star Kate Winslet arrived at the premiere of her new film tonight with a new man on her arm her younger brother Joss.