… in Australia. Damn you.

Big Mac sauce is one of those fast-food items that we’d love to see available for purchase. Now, McDonald’s have gone ahead and bottled their distinctive sauce for the first time - in Australia.

A gay couple have accused a driver of an Uber Cab in London of throwing them out because they were kissing.

Some types of Christmas gifts almost always disappoint, a new poll has shown.

Two people are due in court this morning charged over an assault that led to the death of Dale Creighton in Dublin.

Ryan O’Dwyer looks set to sit out the majority of Dublin’s Allianz Hurling League campaign.

MUSIC NEWS: Bruce Springsteen has sold out all his summer gigs in Ireland, and will spend some of the next few months helping on a documentary on himself.

Eric Elwood has made a number of changes following his side’s narrow defeat to Leinster for the visit to the Stadio Zaffenella to play Aironi tomorrow (4.35pm).

CENTRAL CITY, a track-bred dog who had his first outing on a coursing field at East Donegal on New Years Day when he was a fourth reserve in a All-Aged Stake, and then went on to win his trial stake at Tubbercurry, was a surprise winner of the Boylesport.Com Derby at Clonmel yesterday.

EOIN Doyle and Shay Barry started the New Year as they ended 2009, with a double at Tramore, highlighted by the victory of course specialist The Fonze in the featured Waterford & Tramore Racecourse Supporters Chase, a race in which he finished third last year.

A search operation is underway along the Co Wexford coastline for a missing teenager.

Flag Of Honour got favourite backers off to a good start at Fairyhouse as he claimed the opening Bobbyjo Bistro On New Years Day 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle.

A 19-year-old father-of-one, whose unprovoked assault on a passer-by on New Years Day left him unconscious in a pool of blood, has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man accused of murdering his friend at a New Year’s Eve celebration sent a text after the stabbing saying his friend had jumped on him and his "rat bird" had started it all.

SLATTERY’S Sun is offering Christmas away from the cold, damp and possibly snow, with flights from Dublin, Cork and Shannon over the festive season.

The daughter of a bed-ridden woman who died days after being found in a severely malnourished state today said she had done her best to look after her.

Concern is mounting for a young man missing from his Wicklow home since last Thursday.

The ESB Senior Men’s and Women’s National Cup, will be reduced to four semi-finalists after the weekend, with eight men’s and eight women’s teams to battle it out for a place in the coveted finals weekend.

The Chelsea rollercoaster rumbled into a new trough tonight, with chief executive Trevor Birch ruling out any significant transfers during the January window – to concentrate instead on “putting our house in order“.

The gardai at Letterkenny are appealing for the public’s help in tracing 26-year-old Nodlaig McDaid who has not been seen since the early hours of New Years Day.

The punt was today in its final day of being the sole official currency of the Republic.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has backed calls for a winter break to be introduced into Premiership football.