Social Protection Minister Joan Burton has confirmed that her department has 194 cases still open in an initiative targeting dole cheats which has generated €21m for the State to date.

A dole cheat with €98,000 in the bank received €80,410 in social welfare payments as a result of concealing his savings from the State.

Doctors in Houston are optimistic 10-month-old formerly conjoined twin girls will survive after a recent surgery that separated them.

St. Peter’s College (Wexford) 1-16 Castlecomer CS (Kilkenny) 0-6: Leinster Post Primary Hurling: St. Peter’s College eased to a 13 points win over Castlecomer Community School in this one-sided Leinster Post Primary SAHC quarter-final at the Netwatch Carlow Centre of Excellence on Saturday.

Two-thirds of doctors are treating more overweight and obese children than they did two years ago.

A science student will launch a record-breaking attempt to row across the Pacific Ocean next year.

A science student will launch a record-breaking attempt to row across the Pacific Ocean next year.

They play no part at Croke Park tomorrow but everyone wants to know what they’re thinking, whether they’re hurting and if not, why not? Kevin Cassidy (31) and Conor Mortimer (30) sat down to discuss their exits from the Donegal and Mayo panels over the last 10 months.

Tipperary overturned a seven-point deficit against Kerry in yesterday’s Gaelic Grounds final to retain their Electric Ireland Munster MFC crown.

MARK CASSIDY was little more than an interested spectator when he stood alongside his mother in Drogheda to watch his father, Philip, don the coveted race leader’s yellow jersey at the end of the penultimate stage of the 1999 FBD Insurance Rás.

A British teenager who was found dehydrated and freezing after 12 wintry days lost in Australia’s wilderness said he wrote farewell notes to his family and expected to die of starvation.

A “BACK from the dead” backpacker who was lost in the Australian bush for 12 days was last night recovering in hospital after he was found by chance by two hikers.

A British backpacker has been found alive in the Australian bush after his desperate father gave up hope of ever seeing him again.

YOU’RE not supposed to like The Sound of Music.

The mother of two girls murdered by their father wept today at a funeral service held for her two “angels”.

A mother in England will today bury her two young daughters who were smothered to death by their father who also killed himself.

A man believed to have killed his two young daughters before committing suicide phoned their mother to say “the children have gone to sleep forever”, a family friend said.

Tom Cruise's representative has denied the star's wife Katie Holmes has ordered his mother and sister to move out of the couple's family home.

You wouldn’t think the Hammers – dear old West Ham United, usually of the lower regions of the Premier League, when not being relegated – could enrage so many of their fans to such heights of savagery.

The European Union today escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft today, threatening new multi-million-euro fines against the software maker over claims it fails to offer rivals a fair deal on licenses for helping servers work with Windows.

Tom Cruise is living with another woman but it’s not steady gal-pal Penelope Cruz.

The boss of an animal testing laboratory has been attacked by three masked people wielding baseball bats.

Shares in Huntingdon Life Sciences, the research laboratory brought to the brink of closure by animal activists, soared as investors cheered its rescue package.