As 32 lovely ladies prepare for the Rose of Tralee this week, 31 pretty pooches, and one horse, are also readying for their close-ups — tomorrow, one of them will be crowned the Nose of Tralee.

IAN HOUGHTON witnessed the grief of customers queuing at his fish and chip van on the Belfast housing estate where the soccer legend grew up.

Employers must be prevented from dividing their staff with a two-tier workforce which discriminates against immigrants, the Socialist Environmental Alliance manifesto in the North said today.

An unemployed man was accused today of an arson attack that led to a huge rescue operation from a block of flats in Belfast.