Dublin 0-17 Offaly 0-13: A magnificent seven points in a row from resurgent Dublin secured victory at Parnell Park and pole position in Group A of the O’Byrne Cup.

O’Byrne Cup

Ireland club xv 26 Scotland club xv 21

PARISH priests in a Midlands town are this morning halfway through a 24-hour fast and penance held to acknowledge the pain caused by decades of Irish clerical child abuse their own colleagues caused.

A JUDGE waived a burgling bride-to-be’s curfew — so she can go on her hen night.

IRELAND held off a tremendous late Scottish rally at Donnybrook to win a hugely enjoyable AIB Club international last night.

Windfalls averaging £1,700 (€2,500) were today dangled in front of members of Standard Life after the life insurer rejected several approaches from rivals.

Standard Life members are to be offered cut-price shares as part of the insurance giant’s planned flotation, sources said today.

STANDARD LIFE chief executive Sandy Crombie apologised to the Irish people yesterday for a jibe he made when referring to a potentially confusing change in its reporting calendar as “Irish”.

SALES at Standard Life increased by 11% in the last year as Europe’s largest mutual assurer gears up to persuade members to float on the stock exchange.

The boss of life insurer Standard Life is giving up bonuses of more than £500,000 (€708,328) as a gesture to disgruntled policyholders.

Insurance giant Standard Life is to axe 1,000 jobs under plans to cut costs, the company announced today.

EUROPE’S largest mutual insurer Standard Life, while considering ditching its prized mutual status to raise cash, paid its former chief executive more than £1 million in salary and bonuses last year.

Standard Life has unexpectedly parted company with chief executive Iain Lumsden after less than two years.

A woman in New Zealand was accidentally set alight while giving birth by Caesarean section on a hospital operating table.