THE Irish community in Sydney has rallied around the family of Ballyvolane-native David Keohane.

Jockey Shane Dye has left intensive care after making swift progress following emergency brain surgery.

IRELAND’S Tadhg Kennelly has been ruled out of Sydney Swan’s AFL opener against Brisbane Lions.

Hong Kong’s hospitals may be unable to cope with new cases of a deadly mystery disease coming in daily, the legislature’s medical representative said today - but he predicted that the illness could be contained in two to three weeks.

Health officials said today that 88 more people from one Hong Kong flats complex had fallen ill with the “Asian flu” mystery SARS disease, bringing the total number of cases there to 213 and sparking fears that it will keep spreading.

THE mother of 33-year-old Dublin train driver Garry Mulligan broke down in tears in court yesterday when she spoke of the pain her son still suffered as a result of his tragic swimming accident in Australia.

FORMER train driver Garry Mulligan, 33, who was paralysed when he broke his neck while swimming during a holiday in Australia, had just proposed to his girlfriend before the accident, the New South Wales Supreme Court was told in Dublin yesterday.

Legal history was made today when an Australian court sat for the first time in the Republic of Ireland to hear how a train driver was paralysed during a holiday swimming accident.