University College, Cork won an emotional inter-varsity title on home turf at the Mardyke yesterday, ousting University of Ulster on penalty strokes after a tense 1-1 stalemate.

University College, Cork Fitzgibbon Cup finalists where are you?

BRITAIN’S first major food strategy for 60 years, which Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will launch at the Oxford Farming Conference today, will call for a sea change in the way people think about farming.

Top comic movie star Will Ferrell recently dropped in for a short visit to Derry and Belfast … as part of a roots-tracing venture.

Doctors are continuing to reduce Ariel Sharon’s anaesthetics today, a day after Israel’s prime minister took a small step towards recovery from a massive stroke.

GAA presidents, past, present and future will enter a final round of talks in New York today in a bid to finally secure a self-owned stadium project for the local board.

WOMEN who delay having children are defying nature and risking heartbreak, experts warned yesterday.

The British government could face huge extra education bills if a French student wins his European legal battle for a maintenance grant to study in London.

HOSPITALS, particularly psychiatric hospitals, should make more use of art as a means of easing the suffering of patients, a conference heard yesterday.

Bill Clinton is due to return to Oxford University to open an institute for the study of American culture and politics.

In Ireland, two thirds of men and almost one half of women are overweight or obese, according to a major new survey today by the Food Safety Promotion Board.