Shares plunged in Tullow Oil following the surprise announcement it was issuing a £607m (€695m) sales share at a vastly discounted price.

The Republic of Ireland have moved up a place in the latest FIFA world rankings following their two World Cup qualifying draws.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has reopened the racism row which dogged his - and the club’s – season by describing his eight-match ban as strange and insisting his “conscience is clear”.

South Korea, Poland, Venezuela, Surinam & Cayman Islands have chosen Dublin as a training base for the London Olympics.

One of the delegates invited to the meeting at the centre of FIFA bribery investigations has confirmed that he was given a brown envelope containing a “gift” of $40,000 (€28,000) in cash.

Cocaine with a street value of £8.25m (€9.91m) was found hidden in machinery at one of the UK’s biggest ports, investigators said today.

A Surinam promoter acknowledged trying to pass off a Las Vegas-based entertainer as six-time Grammy winner Toni Braxton at a disastrous show dubbed the 'Phony Toni' concert by local media, his lawyer said.

A mother and daughter from Surinam who were living "in dire poverty" in Holland have been jailed for four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of cocaine valued over €106,000.

A Surinam businessman who swallowed 100 pellets of cocaine to repay a debt loan to criminals has been given a seven year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Surinam national who swallowed 110 "cocktail sausage"-size pellets filled with cocaine has been jailed for five years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

DIGICEL, the mobile phone company owned by Denis O'Brien, is eyeing up a $100 million (€82.32m) acquisition in Caribbean.

The Dutch government today released the nationalities of 10 of the 11 prisoners who died in a fire at Schiphol Airport last Thursday.

European Union veterinary experts were today expected to approve an EU-wide ban on the import of exotic birds and stricter rules on the private ownership of such pet birds.

A blanket ban on the import of live birds into the European Union is expected to be agreed today as more cases of the most deadly strain of avian flu are confirmed.

A PARROT that died in quarantine in Britain was thought to have caught the deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu from Taiwanese birds being held in the same compound.

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

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