The success of today’s Gay Pride parade in Belfast has been hailed as a call for a more tolerant and equal society in the North.

A POLITICIAN in the north was last night at odds with House of Commons record keepers as she sought to distance herself from comments claiming homosexuality was worse than child sex abuse.

This week, the Economic and Social Research Institute said recession will occur in Ireland for the first time in 25 years. This means the economy will shrink for at least six months in a row. Conor Ryan looks at the likely battlegrounds in the fight to regain control of the economy.

“HE’LL be a better horse next year”, quipped Ruby Walsh after he had guided the teenager, Adamant Approach, to victory in the Gleneagle Summer Cabaret Chase at Killarney last night.

CASHMANS introduced Alexandrova at 33-1 for next year’s Epsom Oaks following her demolition job on the opposition in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Tralee yesterday.

A MAN in his early 20s has been arrested and is helping gardaí with their investigation into the death of Co Waterford horse breeder Dick Forristal.

DEREK O’CONNOR created his own piece of history by partnering a double at the second day of the South Union Hunt point-to-point festival at Fort Arthur outside Kinsale yesterday.

TWO women were receiving treatment at Waterford Regional Hospital yesterday following two separate stabbing incidents over a 24-hour period.

A SCOTTISH couple were being questioned by gardaí in Co Waterford last night in connection with the violent death of mother-of-two Mary Walsh.

WORKERS at a US company in Dublin have vowed to continue industrial action next week amid concern over guarantees on severance packages when the firm passes into new ownership from next January.

Up to 88 jobs are to go at the Rennicks plastic factory at Kilbride in Co Meath.

Former workers at the Irish Glass Bottle plant in Dublin are due to march from Liberty Hall to the Tanaiste’s office today to protest at the attitude of management at the factory.

SIPTU has served strike notice on management at the Irish Glass Bottle factory in Dublin after its members voted for industrial action over severance pay for laid-off workers.

The 375 workers at the Irish Glass bottling plant in Dublin are to lose their jobs after the company’s owners decided to close the factory.