Treasure hunters have salvaged almost €27 million in silver bars from a ship sunk by the Nazis off the Irish coast.

A 17-tonne trove of silver coins recovered from a Spanish galleon that was sunk off Portugal in 1804 was flown from the US to Spain yesterday, concluding almost five years of legal struggling.

The Woodies DIY Irish indoor championships will be a vital element of Derval O’Rourke’s build-up to next month’s world indoors according to her coach, Seán Cahill.

AN Irishman is to lead a daring bid to salvage a shipwreck containing 200 tonnes of silver worth €170 million about 300 miles of the coast.

MARIAN HEFFERNAN has been added to the Irish team for next week’s European indoor championships in Paris.

DERVAL O’ROURKE has withdrawn from next weekend’s Woodies DIY All-Ireland indoor championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast but her coach, Sean Cahill, insists there is no need for concern.

THE awesome presence of Olympic 400m champion, Christine Ohuruogu, will add an air of excitement to this weekend’s Woodies DIY Irish Indoor Championships at The Odyssey in Belfast, where she will begin the build-up to the defence of her world title in Berlin next August.

Deep-sea explorers who struck it rich two years ago say they have made another big find - the wreck of a legendary British warship.

PAUL HESSION faces a star-studded field in his quest for a sprint double at the Woodies DIY Irish Indoor Athletic Championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast next month.

JIM BOLGER and Kevin Manning are fancied to continue what is rapidly developing into a terrific campaign by combining to land the Go Racing In Kildare Race with Toirneach at Naas tonight.

An American deep-sea exploration company says it has found two colonial-era shipwreck sites in the English Channel.

DERVAL O’ROURKE’S defence of her world indoor 60m hurdles title was in jeopardy last night after she withdrew from next weekend’s Woodies DIY Irish indoor athletic championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast with a foot injury.

A boat caught up in a court battle over sunken treasure has been cleared to leave a Spanish port.

SPANISH Civil Guards heightened a battle over a £250 million (€369m) treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Florida-based company.

The Spanish government has filed claims in a US federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with a colonial-era treasure, an attorney said today.

The Spanish government has filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against an American treasure-hunting firm over a shipwreck they have found laden with a colonial-era treasure, the Culture Ministry said today

AUTHORITIES in Spain are looking into whether a US company can be charged with stealing Spanish heritage for excavating colonial-era treasure from a sunken British warship.

LEADING bookmakers are fearing the ‘Fallon factor’ ahead of Saturday’s Vodafone Derby at Epsom.

Olympian Odyssey, third in the Stan James 2000 Guineas, is likely to tackle the Vodafone Derby rather than run in France.

Australian investment is about to give Belfast commuters the chance to abandon daily traffic jams and go to work by water.