Not only are Ireland’s axe throwing team all from Wicklow, it’s an all female team.

Chelsea Football Club has "apologised profusely" to former striker Gary Johnson, who was sexually abused while a youth team player at the London club in the 1970s.

‘You don’t win a strike,’ Paddy Cardiff used to say. ‘When it’s over, you try to recover from it’, writes, Fergus Finlay.

Tobacco giants have lost their High Court challenge over the lawfulness of the British Government's new plain packaging rules - the day before they are due to come into force.

After university, Rosie worked for a book publisher in Brighton.

At least seven police forces are carrying out investigations linked to child sex claims against the late Edward Heath.

At least four UK police forces are investigating sex abuse allegations linked to Edward Heath, it has been revealed.

Child sex allegations involving Sir Edward Heath are at the centre of a police corruption investigation.

 

The ex-husband of a woman accused of murdering their eight-year-old daughter while under the spell of her lesbian lover choked back tears as he told a UK court how his wife had become “possessed”.

Oh they grow up so fast!

Kilkenny Arts Festival

Kate Hudson says Heath Ledger was her best ever on-screen kiss.

Home and Away will be bidding farewell to one of its most-loved characters very soon.

Robbie Williams was heading towards a "Heath Ledger kind of scenario" because of his past drug addiction.

Congratulations to Tricia Mangan on her appointment as the next high performance director of the Irish Ladies Golf Union (ILGU).

A pilot badger cull in the UK is set to be extended by up to three weeks because fewer animals were killed than had been hoped.

IT might be called Summer Bay — but unlike the Aussie soap there is a lot more to do than hang out in a caravan and fight with the neighbours.

Michael Quirke (Doneraile) is the Irish Seniors Amateur Open champion after winning a three-hole play-off with American Bev Hargraves, whose final round 72 closed what had began as a four-shot gap.

An advertising expert has told the High Court he believes the Government’s information campaign in the children’s referendum exerted a “significant emotional influence” on voter behaviour, encouraging people to think children were at risk and they should vote yes.

Britain’s Ed McKeever said he finally deserves comparisons with the fastest man in the world after winning gold in the 200m sprint kayak.

Gary Oldman says watching Heath Ledger was "dazzling".

Michelle Williams is reportedly dating Jason Segel.

Two notorious thugs were jailed today for posing as Good Samaritans to rob a defenceless Malaysian student during last summer’s riots.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has vowed that a new National Children's Hospital will be built despite An Bord Pleanála's rejection of planning permission for the Mater site in Dublin.

The American parents of a child named Adolf Hitler have been banned from bringing up their children.

HEALTH Minister Dr James Reilly will open a new haemophilia centre at Cork University Hospital today — five years after a study found that services at the hospital for people with bleeding disorders were “grossly inadequate”.

Japan 2 United States 2 (after extra-time, Japan won 3-1 on penalties)

LAOIS senior football selector Donie Norton believes his side didn’t do themselves justice at Croke Park yesterday.

A new healthcare centre is being opened in Co Cork this morning.

Tiger Woods is out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play already, beaten on the first extra hole by Dane Thomas Bjorn in today’s opening round.

Graeme McDowell hopes he will finally be able to replicate his excellent team match play record in individual competition when the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship gets under way in Tucson this week.

The Fine Gael heath spokesman Dr James Reilly has said VHI premium increases are "completely unjustified" after a new report found the company could find savings elsewhere.

Michelle Williams worries she won’t find love like she had with Heath Ledger.

JUSTICE powers are handed back to Stormont today almost 40 years after the British government controversially removed them from Northern Ireland’s local ministers.

DUBLIN make five changes in personnel as well as a couple of positional alterations for their NFL Division 1 clash with Mayo at McHale Park, Castlebar.

Creative, enjoyable TV adverts make us more susceptible to sales messages because we actually pay less attention to them, new research found today.

Lindsay Lohan was dating Heath Ledger when he died, her mother has claimed.

Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger spent a week befriending drug addicts.

NURSING home owners have been warned against passing on inspection charges to residents.

Heath Ledger used to confide his problems to Verne Troyer.

Sheffield United goalkeeper Paddy Kenny may appeal against his nine-month suspension, according to lawyer Stephen Taylor Heath.

THE father of Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and US vice-presidential nominee, says his daughter is steering clear of the media spotlight to focus on writing a book of memoirs.