A couple have begun High Court proceedings aimed at preventing a financial fund from selling their filling station business for what they claim is a significant undervalue.

France 0 Denmark 0

Everton 1 Atalanta 5: David Unsworth’s tenure as Everton caretaker manager has hit yet another low after the Toffees were thrashed 5-1 by Atalanta in the Europa League at a less-than-half-full Goodison Park last night.

Everton's season - like their search for a manager - continues to drift apparently rudderless after an insipid display in the 5-1 defeat against Atalanta.

Atlanta 3 - Everton 0: Everton boss Ronald Koeman could not hide his disappointment following another dismal display in a 3-0 Europa League defeat to Atalanta.

Three great movies to look forward to this week, reviewed by Declan Burke

A teetotal elderly couple and their son were refused drink in a Co Limerick pub, when all they wanted was lemonade.

A travel agent has gone on trial accused of stealing over €18,000 from a charity he founded which sent terminally ill children to see Santa.

For more than 40 years she cared for a legendary Co Cork church.

Kevin Barry has accepted he will never write the great American Jewish novel but he still spends nights fretting about what John Lennon’s widow Yoko On might think of Beatlebone. He explains all to Caroline O’Doherty.

What made Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa oppose British rule? Author Shane Kenna describes his early life and the key moments that helped shape his future path as a patriot.    

Cardiff have claimed that ”imprudent and careless management” has cost them ”in excess” of £8.5m over their signing of unsuccessful striker Andreas Cornelius.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes fit-again Craig Bellamy can have a big impact on Cardiff’s battle against relegation.

Cardiff City 2 Sunderland 2

Cardiff City 0 Southampton 3

Cardiff manager Malky Mackay made just one change for what could possibly be his last match in charge of the club against Liverpool at Anfield.

Crystal Palace 2 Cardiff City 0

Robin van Persie was again absent from the Manchester United squad but Marouane Fellaini was selected to face former club Everton at Old Trafford.

Cardiff 0 Arsenal 3

Cardiff City 2 Manchester United 2

A vast trove of modern art seized under Germany’s Nazi regime, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, has been discovered in a Munich apartment among stacks of rotting groceries, German magazine Focus reported.

THE hanging men: Ireland has executed 29 people - the last in 1954. The Pierrepoint brothers carried out nearly all of them.

Cardiff City 3 Manchester City 2

A probe is under way after a UPS cargo plane crashed into a field near a US airport, killing two pilots and scattering wreckage over a rural area.

DIARIES have always proved a fascination. From the Diary of Anne Frank, through Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole, they form the basis of cult books and movies.

More than 60 years after a Co Cork man was shot dead in the US, police believe DNA may reveal his killer.

Ireland’s biggest garden festival is a feast for the senses, President Michael D Higgins declared when he opened Bloom 2012 yesterday.

SOCCER, hurling and music were Adrian Dunne’s three major passions growing up in Co Wexford.

At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina’s refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, will travel in a bus convoy to Houston today and will be sheltered at the 40-year-old Astrodome, which hasn’t been used for professional sporting events in years.

The controversial Irish ex-priest who leapt on the race leader in the Olympic men’s marathon said today he still hopes to travel to Brazil to apologise to the runner after his plans were scuppered by a judge.

Al Pacino may be returning to his gangster roots, which he has explored in such films as The Godfather, Scarface, Carlito’s Way and Donnie Brasco.

Alamshar, a leading ante-post fancy for the Vodafone Derby, is one of 32 entries for the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Newmarket trainer Alec Stewart has snapped up champion jockey Kieren Fallon for Selective in the Freephone Stanley Lincoln at Doncaster on Saturday.

Japanese researchers are planning a new supersonic passenger jet three times the size of Concorde.

Champion jockey Kieren Fallon landed the Italian Oaks on the German filly Guadalupe in Milan.