The film-maker behind an award-winning documentary on the Corrib gas project has been told to apologise for a joke he cracked at the expense of the Irish Film and Television Awards (Ifta).

FIANNA FÁIL needs to keep “ministers and their Mercs” out of Donegal South West if it is to have any chance of winning the by-election there, a senior party source has said.

A RETIRED surgeon died after he was apparently trampled by a herd of cattle while out walking his dog, an inquest in Limerick heard yesterday.

Burly actor Brendan Gleeson has called on all his coaching skills in the new soccer film Studs to kick a football team of no-hopers into cup winning heroes.

An anti-Treaty of Nice referendum group today failed to win a High Court injunction preventing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern from repeating allegations about the source of its funding.