IT WAS in 1967, as the beginnings of the Troubles were brewing in the North that Tommy Makem penned his trademark song Four Green Fields.

THE airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while, inside its cabin, 140 horrified passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television.

A JetBlue airliner with faulty landing gear touched down safely at Los Angeles International Airport after circling the region for three hours with its front wheels turned sideways, unable to be retracted into the plane.

A man has pleaded guilty to robbery and assault charges in New Ross District Court.

A LONE attacker who stabbed a young business woman just after lunchtime on Wednesday and stole her boutique takings had cased a number of other shops before attacking his 23-year-old victim, gardaí said yesterday.