CHRISTIAN HOUSE (Recycling.co.uk) held off the challenge of American Danny Pate (TIAA-CREF) to win the FBD Insurance Ras in the tightest finish in the history of the event when the race ended in the seaside down of Skerries yesterday.

Ireland is on course to reach ambitious tourism targets set for 2012 due to increased air access, development of new overseas markets and fresh marketing strategies at home, it was claimed today.

EMPLOYERS group IBEC has welcomed the introduction of new measures to support renewable energy in the North and has called on the Irish Government to copy them.

Musgrave Group Limited have reported pre-tax profits for the 12 months to December 2002 of €57.6m, a 22% increase on the €47.1m recorded for 2001.

An RAF Tornado jet was shot down today by a US Patriot missile battery as it overflew the Iraq-Kuwait border while returning from a mission.

A missing RAF aircraft returning from an operation in the Gulf may have been shot down by a US Patriot missile.

THE US unshackled the full fury of its military, unleashing a fearsome ‘shock and awe’ air campaign on Iraq, with the fate of Saddam Hussein still a mystery.

Even before he made his first-team debut for West Ham, Joe Cole was dubbed as the player who had it all.