A group of cyclists from Castleknock in Dublin last week completed a gruelling 660km cycle from Mizen to Malin Head in aid of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Hollywood television and movie screenwriters are to go on strike for the first time in nearly 20 years in a dispute over royalties.

A man who was rejected by his teenage girlfriend has been found guilty of killing her, her seven-year-old brother Marcus, 10-year-old sister Patricia and their stepfather, Roddy Hine, 44 after the break-up of their relationship.