The owner of a Staffordshire bull terrier that bit a 14-year-old girl has been fined €200 at Tallaght Court and must pay €1,100 costs.

A ROW erupted yesterday between Fine Gael and two of the country’s biggest book publishers over the “short shelf-life” of school books.

EastEnders continued its winning streak as it was named top soap at a TV awards event tonight while two of the stars of one its most gripping plots were named best actor and actress.

Martin Kemp, Michael Greco and Tamzin Outhwaite have been nominated for this year's Inside Soap Awards despite the fact they have all left EastEnders.

Channel 4 soap Brookside is to feature a harrowing storyline about child killing as a teenage character turns on a school bully, it was announced today.