The four-piece are happy to return home after a year recording and touring in Britain, says Ed Power

Saorview’s digital roll-out has been extended to include pockets of patchy coverage in West Cork where five existing masts will be upgraded to broadcast the service.

Two Co Louth men have been convicted and each fined €1,000 for attacking the referee after the controversial 2010 Leinster football final.

DONATIONS for earthquake-stricken Haiti flooded into Irish charities yesterday as rescue workers on the ground struggled to help survivors and deliver much-needed aid to the country.

Sales of albums vying for this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize have more than doubled since nominations were announced, a retailer said today.

RUBY Walsh, who will be in action at Newton Abbot today and tomorrow, notched his 33rd success of the season and moved seven ahead of Paul Carberry in the championship race when Vital Plot proved an impressive winner of the Duke Of York Hurdle at Down Royal last night.

A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons while her co-accused Egyptian Essam Eid (aged 52) has been found guilty of demanding €100,000 with menaces from the intended victim.

TWO newly appointed food technologists will provide technical support primarily for artisan meat and dairy businesses, for two years.

Two west Dublin Catholic schools are to take on one third of students from other denominations as part of a pilot-project.

TWO choirs have released a Christmas CD to raise money for a leading elderly support group.

Virgin Media said today that it will take BSkyB to the high court if its dispute over the carriage of Sky channels on its UK service is not resolved within 30 days.

Virgin Media today urged BSkyB to enter into arbitration talks in a bid to prevent Sky’s basic channels being pulled from its service.

BSkyB today looked set to pull its major channels from the Virgin Media cable network at the end of this month after talks collapsed between the two rivals, leaving relations between the groups at an all-time low.

TWO researchers yesterday informed Austrian prosecutors of what they say is new evidence of homicide in a Nazi programme that killed hundreds of ‘unfit’ children at a Vienna clinic during WWII.

TWO Government departments have taken half a year to progress a memo proposing an investigation into the way the Dublin archdiocese handled allegations of sexual abuse by clergymen.

Two of Dublin's leading hospitals have asked members of the public not to visit if possible because of the winter vomiting bug.

I AM at a loss to understand the tales of woe and wringing of hands of those managing tourism in Ireland. Their tears over the lack of visitors, particularly our American cousins, does not sit well with the experience of two such ‘cousins’.

Hollywood star Russell Crowe is set to perform at a tribute concert for Rolf Harris, it emerged today.

TWO pioneering business courses for people managing family companies were launched in University College Cork yesterday.

Pop queen Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie are to spend their first wedding anniversary at the Scottish castle where they tied the knot, it was reported today.