Nicky Henderson is desperately hoping the ground will be quick enough for Forgotten Voice and Cape Express in the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle, the big race on an afternoon of mixed Flat and jumps action at Haydock today.

A worried mother has told how pop singer Bressie came to the rescue of her faltering campaign to raise funds to pay for life-changing surgery for her eight-year-old son.

A LETTER sent to Irish bishops in 1997 shows that the Vatican secretly blocked attempts to report paedophile priests to gardaí.

STAFF at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo are to be asked to take a 10% pay cut from October 1 next.

WILDFIRES have burned thousands of hectares of Ireland’s countryside this year.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is currently romancing her 'Ghost Whisperer' co-star Jamie Kennedy, is writing a book about dating.

NO pressure. But the future of our country, Europe and the whole of civilisation depends on whether you tick the yes or no box on the ballot papers the day after tomorrow.

STAFF at four newspapers that closed down without warning last Friday have still not been paid even though they were promised payment yesterday.

LETTERS have been sent to maternity hospitals from an environmental group warning them of the dangers of using tap water in newborn babies’ formula feed.

OPPONENTS of water fluoridation have slammed the reduction in the amount of fluoride being put into our supplies as “window-dressing” and insufficient to stave off health risks.

AN environmental group campaigning against the fluoridation of Irish drinking water is to take its battle to the EU.

A group of survivors and relatives of victims of the 2004 raid on a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan filed a preliminary appeal against last week’s verdict in the trial of the only known suspect left alive, saying the court ignored conflicting evidence about the attack and the government response.

MEMBERS of Cork’s leading anti-incineration group were barred from going into Leinster House for lunch yesterday after protesting outside Dáil Éireann on Kildare Street in Dublin.

THE editor of Athlone Voice has resigned in a move that has taken the newspaper industry by surprise.

ELEVEN international scientists have come together to slate the Government-appointed Fluoridation Forum’s recommendation that fluoride continue to be added to public water supplies.

FLUORIDATION of some public water supplies may have to stop until plants and technology are upgraded to properly control the amounts of fluoride added.

Alphyra has announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to sell the businesses of its Voice and Data Group, with the exception of the payphones business, for a total consideration of €12m.