Guinness Pro12: Treviso 24 Leinster 24

POLICE: MAN REFUSED TO MOVE FOR HELICOPTER LANDING

The second week of the trial of former solicitor Thomas Byrne has heard further allegations of him defrauding clients, including an 91-year-old woman, out of their homes.

Ulster 29 Treviso 29

When fatgate broke — Jerry Kiernan’s personal operation transformation for upholstered Gaelic football players — I could not be drawn into the barney.

Ulster 29 Treviso 29

People evacuated from their homes told today how they picked their way through twisted shards of metal and glass after a car bomb attack at a British Army base in the North.

The jail term handed down to a reformed drug addict for transporting €1.6m worth of heroin was not unduly lenient, the Court of Criminal Appeal ruled today.

A NEWSPAPER has been ordered by a High Court judge to increase to €11,000 its payment of damages to a young GAA footballer over publication of a photograph in which his private parts were exposed.

AN ex-IRA man with two previous convictions for kidnapping and described as a danger to society and civilisation had his appeal against a 20-year sentence dismissed in the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) yesterday.

A measles outbreak on Indonesia’s Sumba island has killed five children and sickened 711 more children, Unicef said today.

The case taken by a Ryanair pilot against the airline to stop disciplinary action against him has been settled out of court.

Supreme Court Justice Catherine McGuinness is reportedly set to take over from Justice Declan Budd as president of the Law Reform Commission.

SUNAMI orphans could be targeted by criminal gangs who want to sell them, child protection experts warned last night.

Tsunami orphans could be targeted by criminal gangs who want to sell them, child protection experts warned tonight.

A “CHAIN of events” linked former British Home Secretary David Blunkett to the speeding up of his ex-lover’s nanny’s application for leave to remain in Britain, an official inquiry found yesterday.

An official inquiry into claims that David Blunkett misused his public position to help his former lover today concluded that there was “a chain of events” linking him to the speeding up of her nanny’s application for leave to remain in Britain.

The findings of the investigation into claims that former British Home Secretary David Blunkett misused his public position to help his former lover will be published later today.

The pregnant ex-lover of former British Home Secretary David Blunkett will begin her recovery from illness at home today after an 18-day stay in hospital.

The Irish publisher whose wife was involved in an affair with British home secretary David Blunkett said yesterday that she would testify before an inquiry into claims that Blunkett fast-tracked a residency application for her nanny.

British Home Secretary David Blunkett’s row with his pregnant ex-lover over access to her two-year-old son prompted a new round of claims and counter-claims today.

Composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, creator of the Broadway smash Guys and Dolls, has another premiere scheduled – 35 years after his death.

An Irish-born priest has been forced to flee to a safe house after being arrested three times in Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe’s security police, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth said today.