COMMUNAL living has its advantages; pooling resources benefits everybody.

The Republic of Ireland U19 side suffered a heart-breaking loss to hosts Germany in their UEFA U19 Championships Elite Qualifying Round encounter in Sandhausen today.

Cobh Ramblers 1 Avondale United 2 (After extra-time)

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Often described as one of the few plays from the 18th century to have enduring appeal, Oliver Goldsmith’s Restoration comedy, She Stoops to Conquer opens at Cork’s Everyman on May 20.

THE Cork and Kerry mountains were golden with gorse when we drove west last weekend, not Irish dwarf gorse, which displays its glory in September, but French gorse, the tall fellow which Goldsmith described, in The Deserted Village, as “blossom’d furze unprofitably gay ... ”.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are to produce a TV sitcom.

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced a new body to investigation corruption.

Newspapers that engage in immoral behaviour to boost sales should be allowed to go to the wall, a Tory MP said today.

Former British Deputy Prime minister John Prescott privately harboured doubts about the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he disclosed today.

Bob Geldof’s battle to stage Live Aid after being inspired by the Ethiopian famine is to be turned into a TV film, it was announced today.

ELVIS PRESLEY, the King of bacon, banana and peanut butter sandwiches, didn’t die of a heart condition. He succumbed, on the toilet, to chronic constipation.

I HAVE been revisiting walking routes for which I wrote guides over the years for a Selected Walks of West Cork to be published by Collins Press in Spring 2011.

Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs to dead British heiress Robin Whitehead.

FORMER British cabinet minister Clare Short yesterday accused Tony Blair of lying over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and said she believed the government’s chief lawyer at the time had misled the cabinet over its legality.

The UK's Attorney General “misled” the British Government over the case for going to war with Iraq, Clare Short told the inquiry into the conflict today.

FORMER attorney general Peter Goldsmith, who approved the 2003 invasion of Iraq, had doubted the legal basis for the conflict but changed his mind after talks with officials in London and Washington.

Former attorney general Peter Goldsmith today described how he gave the "green light" for military action against Iraq just a month after expressing concerns about the legality of the war.

EXPLOSIVE evidence showing the British government was “clearly advised” the Iraq war was illegal will be disclosed at the Chilcot inquiry just days before Tony Blair gives evidence.

Demi Moore will think twice before ranting online again - after her last Internet posting sparked a war of words with her neighbour and attracted a flood of media attention.

Ashton Kutcher has apologised to his neighbour for calling him a "jackass" and threatening to hi-jack his bulldozer in a building work meltdown.

Led Zeppelin should not go on tour using their original name without singer Robert Plant, promoter Harvey Goldsmith said today.

A CHILDREN’S charity will today ask for the go-ahead to try to bring the US government to court in Britain for an alleged war crime in Iraq.

Princess Diana confided in a close friend that she needed marriage to Dodi Fayed "like a rash on my face" days before the couple died in a car crash, her inquest heard.

BRITAIN’S chief prosecutor and ex-government legal adviser dealt new blows yesterday to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s faltering plans to tighten terrorism laws, saying tougher measures are not needed and are likely to stir ill feelings in Muslim communities.

Pop stars, film stars, royalty and supermodels strutted down the catwalk to raise money for the victims of the UK floods – while supermodel Kate Moss donated £25,000 (€35,844) to the cause.

Rockers Led Zeppelin today announced a one-off comeback gig in memory of “a giant of music”.

Revised rules for the treatment and military trials of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are “too little and too late”, Britain’s attorney general said today, repeating his call to close the facility.

A RARE picture of Eamon de Valera in unfamiliar garb while visiting the Great Blasket in 1947 is one of the fascinating photographs in a new book that gives insights into life in other days in the Dingle Peninsula.

British Conservative party leader David Cameron has replaced Kate Moss as the UK’s most wanted party guest.

BRITAIN’s police chief, already under pressure over the mistaken shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, is facing fresh calls to resign for secretly recording a phone call with the country’s senior legal adviser.

BRITISH Attorney General Peter Goldsmith yesterday denied there was any political interference in the decision by prosecutors in Northern Ireland to drop charges against three men accused of spying at Stormont.

NON-IRISH workers (the term ‘non-national’ is as spurious and downright silly as it is offensive) are being widely exploited here.

Status Quo today pleaded with Bob Geldof to let them perform at Live 8.

ENOCH POWELL came up with some nasty stuff during his long political career. But there were a few diamonds on the dungheap. The best was his observation that all political careers end in failure.

TONY BLAIR defied his critics on Iraq yesterday and published controversial legal advice from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith in full.

OSCAR-WINNING composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the Star Trek and Planet of the Apes series to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Perry Mason, has died, aged 75.

Oscar winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the Star Trek and Planet of the Apes series to The Man from UNCLE and Perry Mason, has died, aged 75.

MORE THAN 80 part-time teachers are being laid off by Dublin Institute of Technology because of an effective cut in Government funding.

THE worlds of 007 and chequered flags were put aside yesterday as two of Ireland’s best known personalities were conferred with honorary degrees by the Dublin Institute of Technology.

MUSIC courses will be among a number of areas hit by cutbacks at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), it was confirmed yesterday.