Regan King is used to leaving defenders not knowing where to look, but Leinster could tonight be forgiven for thinking they were suffering double vision.

Ireland staged a remarkable fightback over the closing holes at Radyr in South Wales yesterday to grab a share of the spoils with defending champions England on the opening day of the Girls Home International series.

Alan King enjoyed a successful return home as he saddled Raya Star to land the Isle of Skye Blended Whisky Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr today.

The Neil Cowley Trio favour tight tunes over loose improvisation.

'The Professionals' is to be made into a film.

“We are the lucky ones but we are praying for those who are not so fortunate.”

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore believes his party is about to “recast the political map of this country”.

WHILE the rest of the Labour Party clearly knew it was meeting in Galway, new recruit Jerry Cowley seemed to believe he had pitched-up in Sycophant City.

LABOUR vowed to reverse public sector pay-cuts last night as the party’s conference saw it demand a fairer crack of the whip from RTÉ.

The former Mayo TD Jerry Cowley has joined the Labour Party.

A cocaine addict with a history of serious drug offences has been jailed for 12 years for possessing €1m worth of heroin in a car at the M50 Toll Plaza outside Dublin.

Someone living in or around Praia da Luz – the Algarve resort where Madeleine McCann vanished – knows what happened to her, claim the private detectives employed by her parents to find the little girl.

The girlfriend of a club doorman shot dead in front of her as she lay in bed exactly a year ago appealed today for help in snaring his killers.

A stage hand has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for collecting takings from prostitutes working in a city centre brothel two years ago.

A city centre brothel keeper will be sentenced next March at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after admitting his role in the operation.

THERE is a growing consensus among Independent TDs that a post-election alliance should be formed in order to maximise their bargaining power and target a cabinet position, it was claimed yesterday.

DISABILITY-related complaints top the list of Equality Authority investigations, with children’s access to education emerging as the biggest concern.

Mayo TD Jerry Cowley is calling for the establishment of a national flood fund to help households and businesses that suffer damage during heavy rainfall.

Budget carrier Ryanair was at the centre of a storm today after a hard-hitting report found one of its aircraft nearly crashed at an Irish airport.

A cross party delegation joined forces today to call for an independent commission over the controversial Corrib gas pipe line.

THE taxpayers’ bill for protecting Shell workers during protests over the Corrib gas pipeline has reached almost €750,000, figures reveal.

UP to 300 angry protesters clashed with gardaí in north Mayo yesterday as anti-Shell campaigners were bussed into the region from all around the country.

THE group protesting against the proposed gas pipeline in Mayo will campaign against Fianna Fáil in marginal constituencies at the next General Election.

Chile's Hugo Leon carded a brilliant five-under-par 67 to grab the clubhouse lead in the East of Ireland Amateur Open at Baltray.

Chile's Hugo Leon carded a brilliant five under par 67 to grab the clubhouse lead in the East of Ireland Amateur Open at Baltray.

A GROUP of Independent TDs, led by Mayo deputy Dr Jerry Cowley, have called on Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey to resign over his handling of the Corrib gas pipeline dispute.

TAXPAYERS will have to fork out at least €70,000 for the Advantica report commissioned by the Government into the safety of the proposed controversial Shell onshore gas pipeline in north Mayo.

Independent TD Jerry Cowley has reacted with fury to new figures showing that more than 20,000 operations were cancelled in Irish hospitals last year.

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One of the most famous protestors against multinational oil companies will be represented at Saturday’s national rally to free the Rossport Five.

Independent TD Jerry Cowley was ejected from the Dáil on its first day after the summer recess today when he repeatedly tried to raise the plight of the Rossport Five.

Two independent TDs have walked out of a debate on the role of non-aligned politicians at the Humbert-Davitt Summer School in Co Mayo today.

A BLISTERING row between Mayo constituency rivals Enda Kenny and Jerry Cowley yesterday saw the Fine Gael leader demand an apology for the “illegal and forced occupation” of his constituency office by anti-Shell campaigners.

Independent Co Mayo TD Jerry Cowley has dismissed the Government's offer to appoint a mediator to facilitate talks on the Corrib gas pipeline.

Dozens of supporters gathered outside Dublin’s High Court today as five Co Mayo men were returned to jail over their protest against a controversial gas pipeline.

LEGAL moves are to be made tomorrow that could lead to the release of the five County Mayo men jailed indefinitely for attempting to block the Shell Corrib pipeline from going through their land.

The campaign for the release of five men who were jailed for opposing the construction of a Shell gas pipeline in Co Mayo continues today.

THE five men jailed over protests against the Shell gas drilling operation in Mayo remain determined to continue their protest, said a TD who visited them in jail yesterday.

A "flying doctor" helicopter service is needed for Ireland’s remote islands, the Dáil heard today.

An Independent TD and doctor has called on the Government to use a new clinic in Galway to provide breast cancer screening for women in the West of Ireland.

THE Department of Health is considering the introduction of strict procedures for the registration of alternative health practitioners after the death of a 49-year-old man in Mayo.

Confusion reigned at Wolverhampton today when the stewards revised the placings of the opener and split two horses which had dead-heated for third.