Residents in US President Barack Obama's ancestral home in Ireland queued for up to six hours to secure a "golden ticket" to see his homecoming today.

AN entrepreneur is trying to buck the recession and capitalise on President Barack Obama’s visit to his Irish ancestral village by designing commemorative T-shirts.

An entrepreneur is trying to buck the recession and capitalise on President Barack Obama’s visit to his ancestral village of Moneygall, Co Offaly by designing commemorative T-shirts.

Britain's mail dispute remained deadlocked tonight as a fresh wave of strikes caused more disruption to the post – and there was a further threat of longer walkouts next month.

Thousands of postal workers manned picket lines across Britain today at the start of national strikes as a war of words erupted over the increasingly bitter mail dispute.

National strikes by British postal workers will go ahead tomorrow and Friday after hopes of reaching a last minute deal collapsed.

The British government will lose hundreds of millions of pounds on its plan to part-privatise the Royal Mail because of the timing of its controversial proposals, a new report claimed today.

Last minute negotiations were being held tonight between European Government ministers and officials in a bid to head off a row over new employment rights for temporary and agency workers.

Mail misery looks set to continue after negotiations aimed at ending the postal dispute ended without any agreement and further strikes were announced.

UK postal workers will end a 48-hour strike at noon today but mail deliveries will be crippled until the end of the week because of another walkout in a bitter row over pay, jobs and pensions.

Royal Mail today vowed to “fight for every letter” following the New Year’s Day postal revolution in which it will lose its 350-year monopoly on deliveries.

A MOTHER whose only child died after a goal post fell on him, said four other children have died in similar circumstances.

THE nurse stumbled, stabbed and bleeding, out of the elevator of his billionaire employer’s luxury penthouse.

Postal workers in the North have decided to mount an indefinite strike until the loyalist UDA lifts death threats it made against them at the weekend.