GARDAÍ will lead a major and co-ordinated crackdown on University College Cork’s (UCC) annual Rag Week event next week.

ULSTER Bank chiefs were left red-faced yesterday after it emerged the bank had unwittingly promoted an event in which students were offered free entry to a strip show to be held in a bar in Tallaght.

Pink cowboy suits, bottomless trousers and ballroom dresses were in fashion today as hundreds of Irish people made their play for the Big Brother house.