Almost 20,000 cigarettes, as well as tobacco and alcohol, have been seized at Dublin Port.

Oscar Pistorius was in the process of buying six guns at the time he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, more than usually allowed under South African law, his murder trial heard.

A 16-year-old pupil teased by his California classmates for his red hair, social awkwardness and bookish appearance was charged as an adult for allegedly wounding a classmate with a shotgun and trying to target another.

WHAT with all the young people planning to leave the country apparently, now’s the time to brush up on those foreign sports.

ON her highly creditable fourth to Winchester at Leopardstown, Always Beautiful looked to have the easy winning of the Charleville Maiden at Cork last night. However, the layers were against the filly in the morning and she was available at 7-4.

Despite a two-month search for a buyer to take over the historic US Winchester rifle factory, the plant will close at the end of the month, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano said tonight.

SINGER Bob Dylan once felt so besieged by crazed fans that he wanted to “set fire” to them, the music legend reveals in his autobiography.

Singer Bob Dylan has revealed how he was so uncomfortable with being described as the voice of a generation and never really felt a connection with those who loved his music most.

British film producer and distributor ContentFilm was upbeat about its chances of achieving a major overhaul today, despite moving further into the red.

American soldiers are firing so much ammunition that the military’s largest supplier of bullets can’t keep up.

Darkness fell over the African bush today as the moon slipped over the sun in a total solar eclipse.