An outright ban on the use of plastic microbeads in bathroom products must be introduced by the Government to reduce harmful marine pollution, MPs in the UK have said.

An Irish adventurer hopes to become the first person to fly from Ireland to Africa using a lawnmower-like engine strapped to his back.

As Cork Folk Festival remembers Séamus Creagh, Richard Fitzpatrick hears about a brilliant musician who was also a much-loved man

Laois 2-12 Roscommon 1-6: Laois finally brought their Croke Park torment to an end by overcoming a determined but profligate Roscommon in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland premier junior camogie final.

Taste of Success winner Padraig McCarthy now has €100,000 to spend, as well as having his product placed on the shelves of over 140 Lidl stores.

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Galway was the big winner at the Georgina Campbell Awards, taking the top prizes for best restaurant and best seafood restaurant.

Food safety officials in Britain raided two plants yesterday in the latest development in the investigation into the illegal trade of horsemeat.

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ORPHANED when his mother dies, Boston teenager Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormwald) moves to a small Midwest town to live with his uncle in Craig Brewer’s remake of Footloose (12A).

DANGLING half way down a mountain from a nylon rope like some agitated spider is probably not the best place to wonder if the sport of climbing is for you.

An amateur Belfast filmmaker has said he was “shell-shocked” today after being nominated for an Oscar.

Tommy Barker says this property may have gone to the dogs twice, but it has many features to recommend it.

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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today announced €5m in Irish Aid funding for the Niall Mellon Township Trust.

A man whose savage drugs and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been given nine years in consecutive sentences for the assualt and for thefts from psychiatric inpatients.

Sentencing of a man whose savage drugs- and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been adjourned again while the judge considers psychiatric reports.

A taxi driver hasn’t worked since being left with serious head injuries after he was attacked outside a church by a man who had consumed cannabis and alcohol and wasn’t happy about the price of his fare.

An Irish priest has been shot during a robbery at a well-known hospice he established in South Africa to help people suffering with HIV and AIDS.

An Irish priest who ran an Aids hospice in a poor township near the South African capital Pretoria has been shot and seriously wounded in a robbery at his home.

A PUBLICAN was fined €4,000 yesterday for allowing smoking at his premises as he complained that it was hard to enforce the law because of the strident nature of his customers.

An Irish priest today became the first person in South Africa to participate in human trials of an experimental HIV vaccine.

British paratroopers who killed 13 unarmed civil rights marchers on Bloody Sunday probably also beat up and left for dead two innocent Catholic men a couple of days later, the Saville Inquiry was told today.