A PUB bouncer will be charged today with the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney while a senior IRA figure will face an attempted murder charge in relation to a separate attack on Mr McCartney’s friend, Brendan Devine.

LET us devoutly pray that the new consumer agency is a cross between Vlad the Impaler and Attila the Hun, bringing us consumerism as it should be: filled with exposes, enemies, victories and punishments.

Iris’s Gift followed up his Cheltenham success with victory in the Martell Cognac Laurel Pub Company Liverpool Hurdle on the opening day of the Grand National meeting at Aintree today.