Margaret Thatcher left instructions that the British Prime Minister should give a reading at her funeral, it emerged today.

AT TIMES of turmoil like these, we usually go to Breandán O hEithir for consolation.

THE political career of Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his efforts to bring peace to the North, lay in ruins last night after he lost his Upper Bann seat in the Westminster elections.

THE referee at the centre of a shameful assault at the end of a Kerry SHC semi-final on Sunday has vowed not to retire from refereeing.