One of Ireland's finest sportswriters Con Houlihan has died at the age of 86.

TWO newspaper organisations were fined €20,000 each by the High Court yesterday following a decision last week that articles published in two newspapers in 2003 were in contempt of court.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today condemned as ‘‘cowardly’’ the murder of well-known Northern Ireland journalist Martin O’Hagan near his home in Lurgan Co Armagh.