Sunderland grabbed a survival lifeline as goals from Fabio Borini, Jermain Defoe and Duncan Watmore secured a priceless 3-0 win at relegation rivals Norwich.

Sunderland have appointed Dick Advocaat as head coach until the end of the season, the Barclays Premier League club have announced.

THE five schoolgirls killed when the Bus Éireann school bus bringing them home went out of control and overturned were not wearing seatbelts.

An inquest into the deaths of the five teenagers killed in the Kentstown bus crash has heard the bus overturned after at least one of its wheels locked when the brakes were applied on a bend.