Gardaí surrounded a house in Co Donegal last night in their hunt for suspected killer Kieran McLaughlin.

Down footballer manager Paddy O'Rourke has appointed star forward Benny Coulter as his captain for the 2006 season.

PROFITS at the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin rose by almost 75% last year, making it the most profitable private treatment facility in the country.

The brother of a Bloody Sunday victim today angrily denied an allegation that he passed on a threat from the Provisional IRA to a man forced to flee Derry.