Robert Hume tells of the eccentric MP for Athboy, Co. Meath – born 300 years ago this month – who thought he was a teapot, and was afraid his spout might break off.

The brutal sexually-motivated murder of a mother-of-two in England 35 years ago could be a step closer to being solved following a breakthrough in the investigation.

The sister of a teenager who paid with his life for the mistake of sniffing a designer drug yesterday challenged any suggestion the two men and a woman involved in the supply of a drug to a Cork party had shown genuine remorse.

Two buses have crashed into each other in the heart of New Jersey's largest city, killing one of the drivers and injuring 18 people, seven critically.

US: An aspiring nun who was told she couldn’t enter a convent until her student loan debt was paid off has used an online appeal to get the money.

USA: A New Jersey woman found a winning lottery ticket worth over $470,000 (€425,000) while preparing to file her taxes.

Ireland has the highest percentage of beaches and lakes with poor quality bathing water in the EU after Estonia, according to a report in the lead-up to the holiday season.

ENGLAND:

A man has died in a diving tragedy in county Galway.

PASHTUNABAD — a poor, wind and flyblown suburb of Quetta — is the type of Pakistani town where commanders in the Afghan Taliban lived after being kicked out of their country in 2001.

Spacious suburban home will benefit from new flyovers, ensuring end of traffic bottlenecks, says Tommy Barker

JOHN Stout doesn’t see himself as a hero but if courage, determination, and fortitude are the right ingredients then he is one of Ireland’s finest.

Murderer Vincent Tabak kept images of children being sexually abused on his laptop computer, police in Britain have discovered.

TWISTED killer Vincent Tabak was found guilty of murdering Joanna Yeates for sexual thrills after becoming obsessed with violent sex and pornography.

Vincent Tabak has today been found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of murdering Joanna Yeates.

VINCENT TABAK could have let Joanna Yeates live if he had wanted to, a court has heard.

VINCENT TABAK claims it was “pure chance” that he strangled Joanna Yeates, a court has heard.

VINCENT TABAK claims that he strangled Joanna Yeates for 20 seconds after she screamed when he put his arm around her, a British court heard yesterday.

VINCENT TABAK was drinking champagne the night after killing Joanna Yeates, a court has heard.

JOANNA YEATES fought a desperate battle for life as she suffered 43 injuries at the hands of her neighbour, a court heard yesterday.

A KILLER neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then went shopping in Asda with her body in the boot of his car, a court heard yesterday.

The next-door neighbour of landscape architect Joanna Yeates today admitted killing her but denied murder.

A Dutch engineer accused of murdering British landscape architect Joanna Yeates is due to appear in court in London today.

MORE than you’d expect — that’s what’s on offer with this five-bed home at 5, Clifton, in Wilton’s Elm Park, Cork city.

A 32-year-old man will appear in court in the UK tomorrow charged with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates.

DETECTIVES yesterday arrested a 32-year-old man on suspicion of murdering Joanna Yeates.

The mother of Joanna Yeates has offered to take part in a TV reconstruction of her daughter’s last-known movements.

Detectives were following up several new leads in the hunt for Joanna Yeates’s killer today after retracing her last-known steps.

One of British murder victim Joanna Yeates’s socks was missing when her body was discovered and has still not been found, police confirmed today.

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates launched a campaign on Facebook yesterday to appeal for witnesses.

Police in Britain investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates have found no evidence she was sexually assaulted as they suggested more than one person may be responsible.

POLICE hunting the killer of landscape architect Joanna Yeates in Britain yesterday appealed for information about a 4x4 vehicle seen near where her body was found.

Police in Bristol are warning women not to walk home alone after dark because landscape architect Joanna Yeates’s killer remains at large.

The family of murdered Joanna Yeates today expressed their grief over her death and said they were certain her killer would be brought to justice.

The landlord of murdered Joanna Yeates remained in custody this morning after British police were granted more time to question him about her death.

DETECTIVES were last night granted more time to continue questioning Joanna Yeates’s landlord on suspicion of her murder.

Detectives in Britain were tonight granted more time to continue questioning Joanna Yeates’s landlord on suspicion of her murder.

British police were today granted extra time to question the landlord of Joanna Yeates, who is being held on suspicion of her murder.

Detectives in Britain were investigating today whether murder victim Joanna Yeates was seen leaving her flat with two people on the night she disappeared.

The killer who strangled landscape architect Joanna Yeates and dumped her body by a roadside was being hunted by police in Britain today.

POLICE in Britain have said they are “satisfied” a body found on a country lane on Christmas Day is missing architect Joanna Yeates.

The parents of a young woman missing for nearly a week believe she has been kidnapped.

A PIZZA delivery man who was caught with €120,000 worth of cocaine in the Douglas area of Cork was sentenced to six years in jail yesterday with the second half of it suspended.

Families carrying photos of lost loved ones streamed into a plaza near “ground zero” in New York today to observe the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Centre attack, wiping tears and raindrops from their faces under dreary skies.

Ireland's Danielle McVeigh claimed the biggest win of her career with a one-stroke victory in the Ladies' British Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship at Royal Aberdeen.

Liverpool will come to a standstill today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

Hundreds of mourners gathered together tonight at a memorial service held for a family and a teenage friend who died after their light aircraft crashed in a remote mountain region.