Gardaí have appealed for the public’s help in tracing a woman and her one-week-old baby who have not been seen since two days after the child’s birth and who are believed to be with the woman’s boyfriend.

All top four sides won in Division One of the Munster Junior League as both Kilfeacle and Bandon recorded bonus-point wins.

Rain disrupted the Munster Junior League program yesterday with eight of the scheduled games being postponed.

As the build-up to the weekend’s big Premier League clash gains momentum, Arsenal and Man United fans have been trading insults online.

As the build-up to the weekend’s big Premier League clash gains momentum, Arsenal and Man United fans have been trading insults online.

“That’s my car, oh no! It’s a rental, I don’t believe it!”

Rugby fans were left scratching their heads after a baffling decision by the TMO during today’s NRC match between the Sydney Stars and the North Harbour Rays.

The funeral of two young brothers who died in a Christmas Day crash on the M6 in England will take place today.

CHRIS PATERSON will now reflect on a record-filled Scotland career after yesterday announcing his retirement from international rugby.

Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll will undergo surgery for a trapped nerve in his shoulder next week and is expected to be ruled out for up to six months.

Eve Johnson Houghton just about held herself together after The Cheka provided the trainer with her first Group-race win in the Timeform Jury Stakes at Haydock.

Keith Earls has added his voice to the chorus of discontent led by Brian O’Driscoll by describing Ireland’s 19-13 RBS 6 Nations defeat by Wales as “sickening”.

Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll labelled the decision to allow Mike Phillips' controversial try to stand as "unforgivable" following his side's 19-13 defeat at the Millennium Stadium.

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Brian O’Driscoll today returned fire on Ireland’s critics by blaming pundits for whipping up the negativity that cloaks the team.

Ronan O’Gara continues at fly-half after Ireland named an unchanged team for Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales at the Millennium Stadium.

Brian O’Driscoll takes little heart from Ireland’s schedule during this season’s RBS 6 Nations.

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Sainsbury’s celebrated a strong rise in half-year results today in a buoyant session for the wider London market that saw it touch a year high.

Michael Bell's Prompter became the first progeny of the 2005 Derby winner Motivator to win when he put up a convincing performance under Hayley Turner in the EBF Maiden Stakes at Chester today.

Liverpool star Steven Gerrard was expected to formally plead not guilty today to charges of assault and affray.

Steven Gerrard is to deny assaulting a man during a nightclub brawl, a court heard today.

Steven Gerrard is expected to appear in court today after being charged in connection with a nightclub brawl.

Liverpool will give captain Steven Gerrard “all the support he needs” after being charged with assault and affray.

England and Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard was today charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray following an alleged nightclub brawl, Merseyside police said.

Mugabe has gradually made the impossible possible: restoring Ian Smith’s historical reputation.

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has once again blamed problems of his own creation on the white population, but this time the country is less willing to believe him.

Zimbabwe goes to the polls tomorrow amid hopes of a change from the ruinous rule of president Robert Mugabe and fears of vote rigging on a massive scale.

Thousands of Zimbabweans flocked to closing election campaign rallies today as opposition hopefuls urged people to be on guard against any attempts at rigging by President Robert Mugabe.

An unlawful killing verdict was recorded today on a Muslim teenager who was found dead on a river bank five months after she disappeared.

Ian Smith, the last prime minister of white-ruled Rhodesia, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died, according to a family friend. He was 88.

UK housebuilders George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow are understood to be in talks over a £5bn (€7.4bn) merger in a deal that would catapult the new group into the FTSE 100 Index, reports reveal today.

GIVING women with a certain type of breast cancer the drug Herceptin for one year following standard chemotherapy may improve their survival, scientists have revealed.

GIVING women with a certain type of breast cancer the drug Herceptin for one year following standard chemotherapy may improve their survival, scientists revealed today.

Builders McInerney Holdings have created a new operational structure in the UK as part of a growth strategy.

Zimbabwe’s government stepped up its efforts to seize white-owned land today as it rounded up more farmers defying eviction notices.

Police in Zimbabwe have arrested more than eighty white farmers.

THE FTSE 100 Index recovered early losses to close ahead yesterday after an encouraging start to trading on Wall Street lifted investors.

Two teenage Afghan asylum seekers who arrived in New Zealand today from the Pacific island of Nauru have been taken to prison ‘‘for security reasons’’, officials said.