The Crawford brothers, Stuart and Stephen, struck on the double with Man With Van and debutante Twentrtytwo’s Taken in Down Royal yesterday.

Most of the traders in Douglas had no idea what chaos awaited them until early morning radio bulletins alerted them that the Cork City suburb had been badly flooded.

THE conversation isn’t the only thing that flows when it comes to Beamish — yesterday the tears were flowing too among seasoned drinkers of that mellow blended stout.

A man believed to have shot dead his wife, her sister and three of her children, killed himself after police forced their way into the home where he had fled.

THE mother of the five-year-old Limerick boy who was shot on Sunday night, yesterday gave a chilling account of the brutal attack.