The company behind taxi booking app eCab Dublin has pledged to raise much needed funds for the homeless community this Christmas.

Cirrus Des Aigles could have a first run in Ireland next month ahead of his intended outing in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot.

Seven hundred and four days after suffering serious injuries in a fall at Perth, Brian Toomey has again been granted a professional jump jockeys’ licence.

EUROPE’S policy — our policy — on asylum seekers is a moral and political failure. It may, in time, become the catalyst for terrible social division. In time it will certainly be ranked among the great inhumanities the rich and secure inflicted on the destitute and powerless.

We all dread them. We do everything we can to avoid eye contact, we cross the road to avoid them.

A young woman with a rare and progressive disease who was refused funding to travel abroad for treatment not available here has launched a public appeal calling on the Government and the HSE to relent.

A massive storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions is sweeping through the Northeast of the USA.

A fire has destroyed at least 50 homes in a flooded neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Queens, officials said today.

National Referees Committee (NRC) member Willie Barrett admits players questioning referees’ decisions in hurling has become more prevalent.

Referee Michael Duffy has admitted he was wrong to allow Monaghan take a quick free which led to their goal in Sunday’s Ulster semi-final against Down.

Conor Counihan’s suggestion to send off players who get involved in melees has received mixed reaction among GAA officialdom and his fellow inter-county bosses.

THE GAA’s national referees committee (NRC) chairman Michael Curley has claimed The Sunday Game analysts are making misrepresentations of the rules of the game.

REFEREES’ chief Mick Curley said that while it was clear Alan McCrabbe’s early ‘point’ for Dublin against Offaly on Sunday should have been signalled wide, match officials would not be getting involved in the Hawk-Eye technology debate.

THYROID cancer for sure.

President Barack Obama is making about $8bn (€5.8bn) in federal loan guarantees available for the first new US nuclear power plant in nearly three decades, underscoring the administration's efforts to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

THE Government has been urged to engage directly with British authorities after safety fears were raised about a wave of new nuclear power plants.

Nato and Russia have agreed to resume military ties in their first high-level meeting since Russia’s war with Georgia disrupted their relations 10 months ago.

NATO and Russia agreed to resume military ties today in their first high-level meeting since Russia’s war with Georgia disrupted relations 10 months ago.

Congressional investigators set up a bogus company in the US and obtained a licence from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small “dirty bomb”.

IRISH rowing received a multi-million euro boost yesterday when the National Rowing Centre was officially opened at Farran Wood in Inniscarra, Co Cork.

The Norwegian Refugee Council today said it is closing down its humanitarian operations in Darfur because it is impossible to work in the troubled region of Sudan.

FOR years, activists campaigning for improved cancer services have argued the obvious: patient outcomes are reflected in access to quality treatment.

US officials received a warning in 1995 that Islamic militants were plotting to attack an American nuclear site and targets in Britain - but did not pass on the information to the agency overseeing nuclear facilities or to the plants themselves, it has emerged.