This is the week of Halloween night.

LAST month saw the Cheltenham Festival, the election of the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years and the continuing saga of horseflesh sold as beef.

THE Garda inspectorate yesterday rolled in behind calls by middle-ranking gardaí to immediately arm members with pepper spray.

WOMEN only need to eat an extra 100 grams of saturated fat a week to increase their chances of dying from heart disease by nearly 40%, a new study showed yesterday.