Reports claimed Mason was riding in a convoy with a number of athletes, including the 100 metre and 200 metre world record holder Usain Bolt, when he lost control of his bike.

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Police have used a novel approach to fighting crime - writing a letter to a suspect via Twitter.

One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it roared across the Caribbean on a course that still puts Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba in the path of potentially-devastating winds and rain.

KEI MILLER’s third novel invites us to Jamaica in 1982, to a poor suburb of Kingston called Augustown — which, the 2014 Forward poetry prize-winner assures in the preface, is a fictionalised version of t August Town. 

If you were to imagine a farm with the optimum mixture of quality, location, and potential it would probably look something like the 66-acre holding that came on the market with Cork City-based auctioneers Casey & Kingston three weeks ago.

Bookies say more than £40m (€51.9m) has been gambled on the outcome of the EU referendum — making it the biggest political betting event in British history.

Nigel Farage has admitted he has "absolutely no idea" what will happen if Britain votes to Leave the European Union next week.

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As we all know, opening that Leaving Cert results envelope is a pretty nerve-wracking experience.

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REGGAE music has been an important force in the life of the poet and troubadour Gearóid Mac Lochlainn. In next week’s episode of TG4’s Ceolchuairt series, he travels to Jamaica to explore the music’s roots, which played as a soundtrack to his youth.

Location: Rochestown

Jimmy Nyhan is Munster Vintage (over-60) champion following a battling performance against Mikie O’Driscoll (B) and DD Carroll at Timoleague on Saturday.

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According to the bookmakers Roger Varian’s Kingston Hill is the only credible rival to Australia in Saturday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh but the trainer would be "very reluctant to run" on fast ground.

The Queen of England was among the more familiar faces to pass by Stall 42, in Cork’s English Market, in 2011 — but famously she got waylaid in conversation with fishmonger Pat O’Connell.

Location: Little Island, Cork

A suspected jewellery thief left his phone with a screensaver picture of himself at the scene of a crime in England, police said.

Robert Heffernan was placed 23rd (1:21:00) over 20km at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Taicang, China yesterday.

The youngest Briton to fight in the First World War was just 12 years old — but Sidney Lewis’ identity remained a secret for almost a century until the chance discovery of faded documents revealed his extraordinary story.

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Ireland narrowly missed out on a historic series victory over Twenty20 world champions West Indies in Sabina Park last night, Phil Simmons’ men falling to an 11-run defeat.

Ireland earned a famous win over the West Indies in their first of two Twenty20 internationals at Sabina Park, Kingston, yesterday.

Back in early December, the doubt crept in.

THREE of the five purchasers of the new detached houses at Woodbury have been first-time buyers and one is a certain gentleman, and family guy, rugby star Donnchadh O’Callaghan, who has made his own design tweaks and bespoke rear playroom extension.

’SELFIE’ BAN

Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica, will probably be off-the-charts hot — permanently.

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Three teenagers were threatened with being thrown out of a UK McDonald's outlet for bringing their own cutlery.

A 15-tonne lump of fat has blocked a London drain.

A 15-tonne ball of congealed fat — dubbed Britain’s biggest ever “fatberg” — was removed from a London sewer after a 10-day operation following complaints from locals that their toilets would not flush.

Do not watch this clip if you are just about to eat. Or ever intend eating again.

I’m at my most comfortable on air — you have to be confident and doing live radio certainly brings you into the moment.