Gardaí have arrested three men in their 30s following an attempted robbery at the Marriott Hotel in Enfield, Co Meath, this morning.

ANOTHER big hotel group has withdrawn from Limerick with the decision of the Marriott Hotel group to discontinue its brand name at a city centre property.

A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad today, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the US-allied nation, officials said.

A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in north-west Pakistan as the Marriott hotel in Islamabad partially reopened three months after a brazen truck bombing left 54 dead.

An Government minister feared he would be shot when confronted today by an armed gang who robbed a hotel and golf resort.

Six people, including a Government minister and his official driver were today held hostage at gunpoint during a robbery at a hotel and golf resort, the Gardaí confirmed.

BOMBINGS targeting police killed 10 people and wounded 14 in Pakistan’s volatile north-west and the capital yesterday — vivid reminders of the challenge facing the US-allied country as its lawmakers pursue a national consensus on battling terrorism.

At least nine people were injured when an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into an anti-terrorist squad building in the Pakistani capital today.

At least six more bodies were recovered today from the wreckage of the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital after it was targeted by a suicide truck bomb.

President Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the deadly bomb attack on an Islamabad hotel today.

A large explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital today.

Police in southwestern Pakistan have detained 36 people, mostly Afghan refugees, over a suicide bombing inside a courtroom that killed a judge and 15 other people, an official said today.

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a car park at Islamabad’s international airport today, wounding at least two police officers and killing himself, officials said.

A GROUP of Tottenham Hotspurs’ players had been exposed to a virus before arriving at a hotel where they ate a meal later blamed for their illness, it was announced yesterday.

A group of Tottenham players had been exposed to a virus before arriving at a hotel where they ate a meal later blamed for their illness, it was announced today.

Tests have cleared a hotel kitchen of food poisoning after a group of Tottenham players were taken ill, it was announced today.

At least one car bomb exploded today outside the US consulate and a luxury hotel in Karachi, killing four people and wounding 49, two days ahead of a visit to Pakistan by the US president, police said.

A number of houses have been evacuated in the Co Meath village of Enfield after a gas leak.

The Shelbourne Hotel has today confirmed that it will receive a major facelift with a €40m refurbishment and upgrading programme.

THE Irish Management Institute has pulled out of Killarney for this year’s annual conference.

The news that Jack Nicklaus is set to design his second course in Ireland — on the grounds of the Killeen Castle in Co Meath — has renewed the debate on just how many more new multi-million euro complexes this country can take.

TERRORISTS linked to al-Qaida were blamed for a suicide car bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital, which killed at least 14 people and wounded 150 yesterday.

At least four people were feared dead today after a huge explosion tore through the Marriott Hotel in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

Staff at a hotel visited by a man suspected of being Britain’s sixth victim of Sars were today urged to be aware of the symptoms of the deadly virus.

HE may not have a sponsor or a venue but Ken Schofield, executive director of the PGA European Tour, is adamant there will be an Irish Open in 2003.

Seven people are dead after a suicide attacker crashed a car packed with explosives into the US Consulate in Karachi.

Hollywood star Catherine Zeta Jones is in her hometown today to celebrate son Dylan’s first birthday.