USA: A cat that became famous for saving a California boy from a dog attack threw the first pitch at a Bakersfield Blaze minor league baseball game — or at least she tried-

Almost 1,200 Irish people have died while on holidays or living abroad since the start of 2007 — with 194 losing their lives in the past 12 months.

An Irishman has died in Laos while he was truying to cross a river.

INVESTIGATORS were keeping their distance yesterday from the site of a fireworks blast that killed four people, worried not all of the $20,000 worth of explosives had detonated.