Defending champion Raymond van Barneveld crashed out of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship tonight thanks to a stunning display from Kevin Painter.

Adrian Lewis survived a titanic battle with Tony Eccles to reach the quarter-finals of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Darts Championship.

Defending champion Raymond van Barneveld raced into the third round of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship with a 4-1 victory over Jason Clark.

THE Dublin city coroner has decided to take the “unusual” step of recalling witnesses who have already given evidence at an inquest into the death of a baby delivered by water birth in Cavan General Hospital to allay concerns raised by the baby’s family, an inquest has heard.

A NEWBORN baby boy died as a result of an “acute near-drowning incident” while being delivered in a birthing pool at Cavan General Hospital last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

A FATHER watched in horror yesterday as his teenage son was killed along with three men when a car ploughed into a group of cyclists.

A rare copy of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet printed during the Bard’s lifetime is expected to fetch more than £1m (€1.5m) when it goes under the hammer at a US auction house.

A detective today told the Morris tribunal about unease in the force more than a decade ago over a high-ranking decision to free a woman detained in possession of walkie-talkie radio sets.