Sufferers from the Northern Ireland conflict should receive pension-style payouts, a former victims’ commissioner said today.

PBC CORK’s Brian O’Hara has the honour of leading Ireland out before his hometown crowd for their opening game of the U18 Six Nations festival tonight (Musgrave Park, 7.30pm).

WYCOMBE produced a major upset to send Fulham tumbling out of the Carling Cup with a famous victory at Craven Cottage.

Germany has agreed to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers persecuted during the Holocaust.

Germany agreed today to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

“TO LOSE a child is a nightmare. We are now existing instead of living. Our once close-knit family has been torn apart. Sadly this is all down to one person, Mr Bloomfield.”

A Dundalk lorry driver pleaded guilty today to a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a 12-year-old boy returning from a circus with his cousins.

The United States is banning land mines that cannot be located with metal detectors, a move designed to set an example to other nations and to protect mine hunters.

Northern Ireland’s police chief Ronnie Flanagan today met relatives of the Omagh bomb victims to ‘‘correct distortions’’ about his handling of the investigation into the atrocity.

IRA chiefs are being urged to make a new effort to end the misery of the families of Northern Ireland’s ‘‘disappeared’’.