Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield said today that his six-month jail term was “political”, that he had no regrets, and that he would do it again.

More than 1,000 allowances paid to public sector staff will be examined by the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after the Government abandoned plans to abolish them for existing workers.

Former England striker Michael Owen has no doubt he will find a new club before the end of the transfer window.

FIVE major Cork city sports groups have joined forces to hit out at the controversial €750,000 Rock Bingo development, claiming it will have a “devastating effect” on the funding of their organisations.

IT’S NOT nice coming second, or third for that matter.

FIVE new allegations of child sexual abuse at a Cork school were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the past month, according to the order.

Mohamed Bin Hammam has claimed the cash given to members of the Caribbean Football Union during his campaign for the FIFA presidency was simply payment to cover their expenses as he launched a stinging attack on the governing body for his life ban.

Mohamed Bin Hammam has alleged his life ban from all football-related activity was decided before FIFA’s ethics committee heard his case.

FIVE men were arrested in Cork yesterday as part of a Garda investigation into dissident republican activity.

FIVE of the leading European rural affairs organisations have joined forces.

West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has said off-air remarks by Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray about both herself and Premier League official Sian Massey made her “blood boil”.

DISRUPTION to BBC radio and TV news programmes will continue over the weekend because of a “solidly supported” strike by thousands of journalists, including newsreaders and presenters, in a bitter row over pensions, union leaders said.

Talks between the company that owns the rights to 'Big Brother' and Channel Five are reported to have stalled.

FIVE preliminary bids for EBS Building Society were lodged before yesterday’s submission deadline, the Irish Examiner understands.

FIVE medical personnel attached to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick, will be part of an Irish team of doctors and nurses who will travel to Haiti to help people injured in the January 12 earthquake which devastated the country.

ITV, Channel 4 and Five could be allowed to limit the number of adverts they show under proposals issued by regulators Ofcom today – a move which could boost their advertising prices.

Controversial daytime TV host Jeremy Kyle is to take his show to the US, it was announced today.

TV hit 'Top Gear' was today named the UK’s favourite television programme of the decade

Glamour model Katie Price will today give her first television interview since her marriage to Peter Andre formally ended.

Donations double after advert airs.

A row has erupted in Britain over the refusal of both the BBC and Sky News to air an emergency appeal for Gaza.

A FIVE-JUDGE Supreme Court will hear on December 8 the appeal by Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and public affairs correspondent Colm Keena against a High Court order requiring them to answer questions from the Mahon tribunal.

Newcastle interim manager Joe Kinnear has pledged not to curb his tongue and admitted: "I didn't think there was so much hatred up here."

ITV’s obligations in the UK as a public service broadcaster could be cut back under proposals outlined today by the British broadcasting watchdog.

FIVE jet pilots used smoke plumes to script “Welcome to the 37th Ryder Cup” in the sky — officially re-igniting America and Europe’s intense biannual golfing rivalry.

Five today confirmed details of its revived version of classic hit TV show 'Minder', which will star Shane Ritchie as wheeler-dealer Arthur Daley’s nephew.

FIVE grant schemes aimed primarily at existing forest owners have been re-opened.

FIVE Munster counties are now leading the country in afforestation.

Captain Cee Bee, Muirhead and Khyber Kim are still engaged in the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham next week.

ITV today agreed to buy the production company behind BBC game shows Eggheads and Who Dares Wins in a deal worth up to £35m (€48.5m).

THE names of the stars taking place in this year’s I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! have been revealed.

The names of the stars taking place in this year’s 'I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!' have been revealed today.

AN unprecedented meeting will take place today between objectors to the Corrib gas project and Energy Minister Eamon Ryan where they will outline their concerns over the Shell-led project. The talks will centre on objections to the gas project’s refinery, planned for Bellinaboy, in north Mayo.

Billie Piper’s new drama, The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, gave UK TV channel ITV2 some of its most successful viewing figures last night.

Madonna, Beastie Boys, Leonard Cohen and disco supergroup Chic are among the acts on the ballot for next year's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction.

ITV boss Michael Grade today pledged to invest in original programming under a “self-help” plan to revive the broadcaster.

Shares in broadcaster ITV soared amid market speculation over a potential bid from RTL, the German owner of rival channel Five.

The BBC is to drop Neighbours, it announced today.

Former Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale believes the club will never have a bright future unless they stop dwelling in the past.

Five Big Brother Housemates face eviction this week, Channel Four announced tonight.

FIVE groups are in the running to secure a licence to run a commercial radio station covering the midlands and the north-east.

Cable group NTL’s plans for a takeover of commercial broadcaster ITV were today facing potential competition from the owner of UK channel Five.

ANDY ROBINSON has vowed to continue as England head coach despite the world champions’ demoralising and humiliating run of seven successive defeats.

Westlife are delighted by the return of British boy band Take That, and would love to record a duet with the Relight My Fire stars.