Following a tough ordinary level maths paper on Friday for most Leaving Certificate students, reaction seemed much more positive to yesterday morning’s paper 2.

The highest number of students on record was entered for higher level maths and the first of two papers was considered fair.

Junior Certificate maths exams concluded yesterday morning and higher level students needed to be skilled at diagrams to do well.

The first maths papers for Junior Certificate students were taken yesterday evening and around 32,000 were taking the higher level exam.

Fionnuala Britton’s manager, Ian Chaney, insisted she will be focusing purely on her training, with media contact at a strict minimum, upon yesterday’s announcement of the Irish team for the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on December 8.

A man who pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities to gain access to nude photos and private information was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge in Los Angeles.

A man who hacked into the personal online accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and other women has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A convicted murderer and a Louth man have been sentenced for stabbing two friends after a dispute over a disturbance from a house party.

A man has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to charges he hacked into the email accounts of such celebrities as Christina Aguilera and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the internet.

A man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the internet, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles.

A Florida man charged with hacking into the email accounts of Christina Aguilera and Scarlett Johansson is scheduled to make his first court appearance in California today.

A man accused of hacking into the email accounts of singer Christina Aguilera and actress Scarlett Johansson may have stalked a woman for the past 12 years, according to a search warrant.

POLICE have arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed ‘Operation Hackerazzi.’

Police have arrested the man who allegedly stole naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson from her phone.

A man has been charged with hacking into the emails of dozens of people, including Christina Aguilera, Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, in a computer invasion scheme which targeted Hollywood celebrities, according to documents released today.

It’s not often a remake of a much loved film betters the original but here the Coens have not only bettered the John Wayne yarn of 1969 – for which he won his Academy Award (without in truth deserving it) – but shown it for what it really was: hardly a classic but a decent journeyman Western.

ONE-TIME Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison yesterday for masterminding the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers.

An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers – exactly 41 years after they disappeared.

ACCUSED Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was implicated in the killing of a civil rights worker in testimony from a now-deceased Klansman read in court yesterday.

REPUTED Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen watched from a wheelchair yesterday as jury selection began in his murder trial in one of most shocking crimes of the US civil rights era — the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers.

Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen watched from a wheelchair today as jury selection began in his murder trial in one of most shocking crimes of the civil rights era – the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers that was later depicted in the movie “Mississippi Burning.”

More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the US civil rights era – the “Freedom Summer” killings of three young civil rights workers - a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested on murder charges in the case.

AN Irish motorcyclist was fighting for his life yesterday in a Cypriot hospital after suffering serious injuries in a crash.

A 43-year-old man appeared in court today charged with assault in connection with the death of a 47-year-old woman.

A man was due in court this morning in connection with the death of a 47-year-old woman.