Shane Coughlan snatched a sensational late three-pointer as UCC Demons somehow denied UCD Marian a place in the Premier men’s National Cup semi-final despite losing their second leg by 30 points.

Trends repeat, you know. Be it fashion, music or Kilkenny winning the hurling All-Ireland, once you get in there it’s hard to shift you.

THREE schoolgirls who went on a shopping trip to mark one of their birthdays were wrongly accused of shoplifting and held in a small room for almost half an hour, a judge has heard.

A former security worker who staged a 'tiger' kidnapping which involved his housemates being bound with cable ties and threatened at gunpoint has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

AFTER a six-year legal battle and two inquests, the mistress of a judge found dead after a mysterious fire at his country home admitted yesterday she might never know how he died.

DETECTIVES are investigating whether subversives may have been involved in the latest botched tiger kidnapping in north Dublin.

A British fire extinguisher factory is set to close with the loss of more than 150 jobs as its work is transferred to China, it was announced today.

The FTSE 100 Index surged towards the 4200 mark today as investors on both sides of the Atlantic showed a renewed sense of optimism.

LONDON’S bankers hoped a recent resurgence in merger deals would generate some much-needed good news for their battered industry but instead found Britain’s press seeking out an “insider dealing ring” among them.

CHUBB Plc, the British security company that is in talks to be acquired, may cost more than £1 billion (€1.4bn), limiting potential suitors to private-equity firms and companies as large as Rentokil Initial Plc, analysts say.

Robert Gasparini is stepping down as chief executive of security services firm Chubb after little over two years in charge, it emerged today.