I think I can head to Naas today with a degree of optimism and it’ll be a surprise, at least to me, should I leave empty-handed.

FOUR men have been given the maximum sentence of 10 years for disposing of and attempting to destroy the body of a mother-of-two beaten to death in Wexford last year.

A judge has said the victim impact statement of the family of killed mother of two Rebecca French was "offensive and inappropriate".

IT was not just the glorious sunshine that had farmers in a good mood at Tullamore Show last Sunday.

Controversial comments by Father Alec Reid comparing unionists in the North to the Nazis were said in the heat of the moment, his fellow witness to IRA disarmament claimed today.

FRAN BERRY continued his relentless pursuit of a first Jockey’s Championship when recording another double, on Miss Isabela and Carlesimo, at Bellewstown.

FRAN BERRY drew level with Michael Kinane at the top of the jockeys’ championship when taking his total for the campaign to 28 aboard Spirit Of Age in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Handicap at Tralee last night.