A family touched by tragedy hopes to help get Ireland’s first doctor-led air ambulance service in the air.

And so, back to reality. Irish fans returned home yesterday, some bleary-eyes and a little bedraggled, but all filled with optimism after a thumping World Cup win against Canada.

People in the Clonakilty area of West Cork were plunged into mourning yesterday following the death of a worker at the Clona Dairies plant in the town.

RACHEL DOYLE was elected President of the International Garden Centre Association (IGCA) last October.

Sinn Féin deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh has said he and his wife are looking forward to getting their 18-year-old son “home again soon” once doctors have treated his stab injuries.

The 18-year-old son of a Sinn Féin TD is recovering in hospital after being stabbed during a late-night incident at his home.

A jury is being asked to decide if the son of former Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa was insane when he assaulted his father in their Dublin home.

A jury is being asked to decide if the son of former Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa was insane when he assaulted his father in their Dublin home.

Brian Ellison will give his impressive Finale Juvenile Hurdle winner Marsh Warbler an entry in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Bring Sweets opened his account over obstacles in an eventful Rachel Wright Memorial Hurdle at Wetherby today.

A legal challenge against how police handled the loyalist protest which targeted Catholic schoolgirls at Holy Cross Girls' School in north Belfast could end up in the European Courts, it was revealed today.

TWO former soldiers were being questioned last night about the murder of a nationalist councillor in the North over 30 years ago.