COLLECTIBLE TOYS

Plans for the new National Children’s Hospital on the St James’s Hospital campus in Dublin will be “vigorously opposed”, Jack and Jill Foundation founder and chief executive Jonathan Irwin said yesterday.

An environmental group has secured leave to appeal against the rejection of its challenge to a grant of permission for a wind farm in Co Laois.

With estimates from €50 to €22,000, Adams Sunday Interiors auction at 11.30 am in Dublin tomorrow offers everything from fine antique furniture to equestrian portraits and even a 1914 hat box by Louis Vuitton.

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.

One man has been taken to hospital following a collision in Dublin this evening.

A man has been jailed for six years after he tied a 14-year-old boy to a radiator, threw boiling water down his trousers, and removed skin from his knees, knuckles, and fingertips with a cheese grater.

A man has been jailed for six years after he tied a 14-year-old boy to a radiator, threw boiling water down his trousers and removed skin from his knees, knuckles and fingertips with a cheese grater.

AN Irish gilt and gesso side table made €90,000 to become the top lot at the James Adam’s Country House Collection sale in Slane Castle last Sunday and Monday.

The government has announced that it is to develop the new children's hospital on the campus of St James's Hospital in Dublin.

There is one key factor to be considered in coming to a resolution of the new national children’s hospital debacle and that is: Who will own and govern the new hospital?

Des O’Sullivan previews Monday’s sale of important Irish art in Dublin

THEY may have required extra time to chisel out the result but St James were merited winners against Gneeveguilla in yesterday afternoon’s All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final in Mallow.

The State was today granted a time extension to allow it complete the book of evidence in the case of a 17-year-old boy charged with the murder of a Polish man in Drimnagh, in Dublin in February.

ALAN GAFFNEY was handed a reunion with old friends Munster later this month as his Saracens staged this upset victory over the Heineken Cup favourites at Vicarage Road yesterday and ensured the Irish province a return trip to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena for the Heineken Cup semi-final.

Bruges is set to tackle the Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown later this month after being forced to miss the Darley Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket this weekend.

Paul Cole could switch Luck Money’s attentions to racing at the highest level after the colt plundered a huge €1m prize in the Parknasilla Hotel Goffs (C&G) Million at the Curragh.

One of the feelgood tunes used to inspire delegates at the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis contains references to illegal drug-taking, it emerged today.

A HOUSE on the main Douglas Road in Cork for €220,000? Surely some mistake.

Gardaí have identified the man who was the victim of a serious assault in Dublin last night.

Protests are to be staged at four Dublin hospitals next week against Government plans to allow private developers to build on public land, it was announced today.

YOUNG people were warned of the dangers of experimenting with drugs after an inquest in Dublin heard yesterday that a young businessman jumped over a balcony and fell 50ft to his death shortly after consuming magic mushrooms.

Connections of Short Dance hope she can successfully step up to Classic company following her wide-margin win at York last week.

A daughter of a plumber who died from asbestos exposure tonight warned many more people may be walking around unaware they were exposed to the lethal fibres decades ago.

With less than two weeks to go before the 2006 AIB All-Ireland Club finals in both hurling and football, today saw players from each of the four finalist clubs rewarded for their efforts throughout the season.

KYMANDJEN, a more than useful handicapper, landed the valuable Wilf Dooly Chase at Tramore yesterday to continue the good run of Paul Nolan and John Cullen.

ALL-IRELAND Club Championship football favourites Nemo Rangers will face St Gall’s of Antrim, the Ulster champions, in Portlaoise on February 19th in the All-Ireland Club semi-final.

Kilkenny 6-28 Offaly 0-15

WHEN it comes to houses in the Westbury Estate in Wilton, Cork, you get very high square footage per euro, says estate agent Barry Smith, who’s selling what he describes as a ‘stunning’ house in the estate.

IT was called after a local rock band of the 1970s, but the Cork house Sleepy Hollow now is more likely to conjure up images of suburban reveries than raucous rock gigs.