Anxiety about a deadline to raise America's debt ceiling swept across Wall Street today and drove the Dow Jones industrial average down almost 200 points.

Coached by Andy Ward and Adam Larkin, Belfast Harlequins will face a trip to UL Bohemians in the next round of the AIB Cup after coming through their first round encounter with Naas at Deramore Park this afternoon.

PASCHAL COLLINS, who trains Billy Walsh, insists the Corkman would already be a world champion if he had met him 10 years ago.

NEIL SINCLAIR hopes to relaunch his professional boxing career by beating Arek Malek from Poland at Cork City Hall tomorrow night.

A VITAL rural transport service which offers a “lifeline” to thousands of pensioners is facing major cutbacks because the Government has failed to increase its €3 million budget for next year, drivers warned yesterday.