THE company that operates the Irish Psychics Live premium phone lines increased its operating profits last year to €1.5 million.

CONVICTED criminals are being sent to Britain for psychiatric treatment at a cost of €250,000 each because of a lack of services within the prison system.

THE SENIOR FIFA figure at the centre of a World Cup ticket scandal faces becoming the first person to be kicked off the organisation’s executive committee in its 102-year history.

A member of FIFA’s top brass has been sent home from the World Cup in disgrace after admitting selling England tickets for three times their face value.

GALWAY’S golfers are all set to atone for the defeat of their hurlers by Cork in Sunday’s All-Ireland final following a fruitful opening day in the Bulmers inter-club festival at Rosslare.