Anti-austerity campaigners must unite to reject 'unworkable' government economic policies focused on austerity, a mass rally in Belfast has been told.

Dual Classic winner Blue Bunting is finished for the season, but may remain in training as a four-year-old.

WOULD it be too obvious a statement to suggest that the Doncaster St Leger, run over a mile and three quarters, demands a winner with real resolve?

BLUE Bunting set herself up for a potential third Classic victory in the Ladbrokes St Leger after again demonstrating an iron will to win in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks yesterday.

Dual Classic winners Blue Bunting and Snow Fairy feature among the nine fillies declared for the Darley Yorkshire Oaks on Thursday.

A SHAREHOLDER in Irish Life and Permanent has “abandoned” his legal challenge against plans by the Government to recapitalise the bank.

A shareholder in Irish Life and Permanent has "abandoned" his legal challenge against the Government’s plans to recapitalise the bank.

TWO Irish Life and Permanent shareholders have begun legal challenges against the Government’s plans to recapitalise the bank.

Frankie Dettori snatched a last-gasp victory on Blue Bunting in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

Blue Bunting will seek her second Classic of the year in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on July 17.

Blue Bunting will take on 12 fillies in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

CONNECTIONS of Blue Bunting report the 1000 Guineas winner to be in top form ahead of the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

Godolphin’s Blue Bunting finished with a late surge to land the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in the hands of Frankie Dettori.

Cuts ordered by the Conservative-led British government are “ideological vandalism”, a leading trade unionist told a Belfast rally today.

The multi-national team given the formidable task of overseeing paramilitary disarmament in the North ended 13 years of work in the region today with its task broadly complete.

Migrant workers are essential to the North's economy and enrich life in the region, a public rally against racism was told today.

Workers protesting 1,000 job losses in the North are to hold a mass rally today.

People in the North were today urged to attend a series of silent protests regarding the murder of the two soldiers in Antrim

A TRIO of European councillors who sailed across the English Channel on a homemade raft to deliver a message of goodwill were arrested upon arrival in Britain.

A leading teachers’ union called today for radical changes to the administration of education in Northern Ireland.

The Director of Prosecutions was today asked to reconsider its decision to drop a murder charge against a man involved in a fatal school gate fight with a retired Co Down grandfather.

A garda has been given a one-month suspended sentence for assaulting a school teacher in the 2002 May Day "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration, in Dublin city centre.

An expert witness told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Garda Paul Daly hit a protester with his baton on the junction of Parliament St and Dame St during the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May Day 2002.

Two witnesses have told a jury that they saw gardaí beat a school teacher friend with batons as he lay on the ground during the May Day 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration.

A multimedia student who made a documentary of the Mayday 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration has told a jury he thought protesters believed they were being playful when they surrounded and rocked a garda car.

A man was punched in the face by a garda and then hit with a baton by another at the Reclaim The Street protest in Dublin two years ago, a court heard today.

TWO men were jailed for life yesterday in Australia’s worst serial murder case, in which they tortured their victims and stuffed their dismembered bodies in barrels hidden in a small town’s abandoned bank vault.

Two men were jailed for life today for their roles in one of Australia’s most grisly serial killing sprees.

POLICE hunting several missing people broke into a disused bank vault and found a grisly collection of severed limbs, bones, slabs of flesh and bodies crammed into six barrels, an Australian court heard yesterday.

THE chairwoman of the Catholic Church’s internal inquiry into paedophile priests was making no comment yesterday on reports a member of her team once failed to turn over a crucial complaints file in another child sex abuse investigation.

All paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland must disband and the problem of sectarianism be deplored, thousands of people attending trade union peace rallies in Northern Ireland were told today.