Rugby players under the age of 18 should be barred from the scrum front row to avoid injury to their necks, a study suggests.

Prosecutors filed a murder charge against the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, and he could face the death penalty.

Bail was refused yesterday to the Corkman who wanted to attend the funeral of his brother, whose body was found in a plastic bag at a flat in Dublin.

A brother of the murder victim, whose body was discovered in a plastic bag at a flat on Dublin’s Prussia Street last weekend, applied yesterday to be released from jail for the funeral.

CBC students were recently part of the largest group ever to climb Kilimanjaro, says Sharon O’Reilly

More than 100 second-level students have ended their summer holidays on a high by reaching the top of one of the world’s most famous mountain peaks.

Gardaí in Cork have launched a murder investigation after a 31-year-old man stabbed in the city on Friday lost his fight for life.

A 38-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged in connection with a stabbing incident in Cork on Friday.

VETERAN British broadcaster Jimmy Savile, a famously eccentric culture figure, has died at his home in northern England. He was 84.

The “larger than life” veteran DJ and broadcaster Sir Jimmy Savile has died aged 84.

A lawsuit accusing former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of personal responsibility for US forces allegedly torturing two American whistleblowers who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm will be allowed to move forward, a federal appeals court in the US has ruled.

THEY have the best-named fanzine in football – ‘There’s Only One F In Fulham’.

Police tonight charged a man with murdering a hospital porter in his flat near Belfast.

Four people were tonight being questioned about the killing of a hospital porter at his flat near Belfast.

A hospital porter may have been battered to death when a burglary at his home turned violent, it emerged today.

A booby-trapped bomb planted at an army base in Northern Ireland would have killed anyone who touched it, police said today.

Former Chelsea, QPR and Arsenal star John Hollins has been appointed as the new manager of Third Division Rochdale.