UK retail chain JJB Sports said today it has bought Qube Footwear from a private equity group run by Scottish billionaire Tom Hunter for a nominal sum of £1 (€1.20).

VICTORY in the Sean Conlon Memorial Tipperary Forest Rally has strengthened the national championship bid of Cork crew, John McCarthy/Dan Maguire.

There have been three different leaders in the opening three stages of the Mitchelstown based Sean Conlon Memorial Tipperary Forest Rally, the second round of the KBB Doors National Forest Championship.

A male driver, who crashed after attempting a hand-brake turn, resulting in the death of his best friend, has been jailed for six months by a Dublin court.