Two young people holidaying in the beach town of Oak Island, North Carolina, were swimming in waist-deep water when they lost limbs in separate life-threatening shark attacks.

Supporters of rape victim Fiona Doyle are planning a solidarity rally outside Leinster House this weekend as anger over the handling of her case grows.

THE controversy over the European Commission’s efforts to compel the 16 euro states to submit their draft budgets to Brussels before presenting them to their respective parliaments made somewhat confused reading this week. Surely this would be an incursion into Irish sovereignty.

TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of a riot in Dublin, started by the one and only Charles J Haughey and a fellow student at University College, Dublin, the future senior counsel, Seamus Sorohan.

A light aircraft hit a car body shop and crashed near the birthplace of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, killing both elderly people aboard.