A man has appeared in court again charged in connection with the murder of David ‘Daithi’ Douglas in Dublin's inner city.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of David Douglas, who was shot dead in Dublin earlier this year.

Frederick the Great is judged by many historians to have been an enlightened despot. Geoffrey Roberts on an  impressive, comprehensive new biography by Tim Blanning.

Two brothers have been reunited after spending almost eight decades unaware of each others existence. Frederick, 80, and Jimmy O’Donnell, 78, were born in separate mother and baby homes in the 1930s. They moved through a series of homes before settling in Britain.

“NO-ONE understands men better than the women they don’t marry,” declares Lizzie Burns, the eponymous narrator of Gavin McCrea’s debut novel Mrs Engels.

Sam Smith will head to Australia for New Year's Eve to avoid arguing with his family.

Markets regained some of the huge losses incurred over the past few days as data coming out of the US showed the world’s largest economy continues to recover.

Frederick ‘Freddie’ Thompson has launched a High Court challenge against the Prison Service’s decision to transfer him from Cloverhill to Cork Prison.

An independent expert has suggested that a young mother who died in childbirth after suffering major bleeding may have had a toxic reaction to drugs administered as doctors tried to save her, an inquest has heard.

Carved into the simple obelisk commemorating the fallen are the names of five sons of Margaret and John McDowell Smith.

The master of The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Rhona Mahony, told an inquest she does not believe that a woman who waited 37 minutes for a blood transfusion had a heart attack as a result of a drop in blood volume.

Punters experienced marginally the better of the exchanges at yesterday’s Dungarvan Harriers point-to-point fixture, which took place at Affane as opposed to the normal Kilossera venue, and the well-supported 6/4 favourite Davy From Milan provided them with plenty of cause for cheer by triumphing in the eight-runner open lightweight.

Almost 40 minutes passed before a blood transfusion was given to a woman who suffered major blood loss following an emergency caesarean section at the National Maternity Hospital.

American sprinter Cleo VanBuren is determined to write her name into the history books by becoming the first lady to break 11 seconds on Irish soil.

The race to succeed Martin McGuinness as MP for the Mid Ulster constituency has been confirmed as a four-way fight.

Bookmakers will be taking flurries of bets on what the duke and duchess of Cambridge will choose to call the eagerly anticipated new prince or princess.

On the day before the US presidential election, stock indexes managed slight gains in thin trading.

Dublin-based property developer Patrick McKillen who lost a British High Court battle with two of the UK’s best-known businessmen — the Barclay twins — is facing a legal bill of about £20 million (€25m), a judge was told yesterday.

Property developer Patrick McKillen has told a judge that former British prime minister Tony Blair acted as an “honest broker” who he felt could “smooth over issues” for him in his court battle for control of three of London’s leading hotels.

A property developer embroiled in a High Court battle with two of Britain’s best-known businessmen has been accused of having “convenient amnesia”.

AN 11-month-old baby boy has died following a tragic bath-time accident in the family home in Cork city.

Long before Barack Obama wrote about the audacity of hope, Frederick Douglass lived it. Dan Buckley hails the greatness of a man whose only weapons were self-belief and powerful words

A LIMERICK man was yesterday cleared of any involvement in a scam to sell the Ritz Hotel for £250 million (€300m).

CAN we get him? Yes we can.

Beef Or Salmon heads the weights for the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National after Michael Hourigan declared his 10-time Grade One winner for Monday’s marathon.

DENIS O’REGAN will be looking to continue his recent run of big-race success when he gets the leg-up on Priests Leap in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National on Monday.

IT CAN’T end like this, blared the headline in a French newspaper yesterday, and they were right. France thumped Ireland and Les Bleus have recovered the ground lost in their opening defeat to Argentina.

EMOTIONAL ARTICLE is the nap choice to make a successful step into handicap company in the featured Denny Gold Medal Chase at Tralee this afternoon.

ATTENDANCES may have been down, as was bookmaker turnover, but this was still a cracking Galway.

THE west Cork lads, ably assisted by talented trainer Liam Burke and up-and-coming pilot Kevin Colman, took Ballybrit by storm yesterday when Sir Frederick powered to a magnificent success in the William Hill Galway Plate.

Sir Frederick provided trainer Liam Burke and conditional jockey Kevin Coleman with the biggest wins of their respective careers by landing the William Hill Galway Plate.

Kevin Coleman mount, Sir Frederick, has won the Galway Plate.

Shares in InterContinental Hotels made fresh gains today after it emerged the billionaire Barclay brothers now owned more than 8% of the group.

SIR FREDERICK took his total of successes to five, all travelling right-handed, when proving far too good for the opposition in the Powerstown Chase at Clonmel last evening.

SIR FREDERICK can provide the answer to the Powerstown Chase at Clonmel today, should the meeting survive an 8am inspection this morning.

THE progressive Francis Flood-trained Bronx Girl is fancied to land the Mistletoe Mares Bumper at Navan this afternoon.

MUNSTER National hero Pearly Jack returned to the scene of the crime to take the ladbrokes.com Handicap Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

IF a future star has been seen so far at Listowel this week then it is surely Charlie Swan’s One Cool Cookie yesterday.

THE family of a British farmer who was killed by a car thief said last night that the killer’s 12-year jail term was too lenient.

JOHNSTON Press, the largest regional newspaper publisher in Ireland, has bought The Scotsman newspaper group in a €235 million (£160m) deal.

OSCAR’S ADVANCE proved far too good for Drunken Disorderly in the INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Novice Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

Two former guards convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal testified at US Army Pfc. Lynndie England’s military trial that she was impressionable and under the sway of her soldier boyfriend, Private Charles Graner, labelled the ringleader of detainee abuse by the prosecution.

PART-TIME US soldier Ivan Frederick was jailed for eight years yesterday for abusing inmates in Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison.