The draw for the 2015 Irish Laurels was made yesterday afternoon at Curraheen Park and, despite concerns of a lack of numbers, management have brought together 66 greyhounds for Saturday night’s opening round.

CAMPUS/DAYBREAK Service Station, Cork Road, Charleville, won the award for Ireland’s top forecourt and convenience retailer at this year’s Forecourt and Convenience Retailer Awards.

A chronic drug addict who doused a filling station assistant with petrol and threatened to set him alight, before robbing money from the shop and getting away in a stolen car, has been remanded in custody for sentence on June 15.

SEVERAL people walked within feet of where a woman was being brutally raped and ignored her shouts for help.