If your surname is McCarthy, O’Riordan, Twomey or Kelleher and your forebears came from the Lee Valley then they were probably a bloodthirsty bunch involved in ethnic cleansing in the 14th century.

Every year, thousands of people claim to have been abducted by aliens.

A RARE National Dairy Show, two-in-a-row win kept the Barrett clan of Togher and Adamstown, Cork, at the top of Irish dairy showing last weekend.

Bob Marley did not consider bassist Aston 'Family man' Barrett a member of his band The Wailers, the reggae legend's widow Rita told London's High Court yesterday.

The man who signed Bob Marley today played down the contribution of his backing band, the Wailers, who are claiming around £60m (€87.2m) of the reggae legend’s estate.

ASTON “Family Man” Barrett, equally renowned for his prowess as reggae bass player as he is for fathering 52 children, started a court fight yesterday to lay claim to about €85 million of the Jamaican legend Bob Marley’s estate.