A teenage girl gunned down in a drive-by shooting was an innocent child mistakenly targeted by her killers, her family have said.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses after a 16-year-old girl died following a shooting incident in Tallaght last night at around 10.35pm.

Chief Superintendent John Manley has appealed for the public's help in solving the "particularly heinous crime" of the shooting dead of a teenage girl in Tallaght overnight.

Dick Turpin is gunning for Frankel after snatching Group One glory in the Premio Vittoria Di Capua in Milan on Saturday.

CANFORD Cliffs remains firmly on course for Tuesday’s Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot after coming through a racecourse gallop at Kempton with flying colours.

Canford Cliffs remains firmly on course for Tuesday’s Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot after coming through a racecourse gallop at Kempton with flying colours.

Canford Cliffs could run again this season as connections of the three-year-old mull a foreign trip with their star colt.

BISHOP John Buckley has warned that a shortage of priests will soon mean that parishes in the Diocese of Cork and Ross will have to “share” churchmen.

RICHARD HUGHES will adopt his customary waiting tactics on Dick Turpin in Tuesday’s Juddmonte International Stakes at York.

Richard Hughes will adopt his customary waiting tactics on Dick Turpin in Tuesday’s Juddmonte International Stakes at York.

DICK Turpin looks set to sidestep a fourth clash with his stable companion Canford Cliffs in Wednesday’s Sussex Stakes at Goodwood due to the likely fast conditions.

Aidan O'Brien hopes Steinbeck has progressed enough to give Canford Cliffs a race in tomorrow's St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Unbeaten juvenile Dick Turpin is set to make the leap to Group One company in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp next Sunday.

A shot at the Tattersalls Ireland Sale Stakes at Fairyhouse is on the priority list for easy Richmond Stakes winner Dick Turpin.

UNDER threat from rampant commercialism, these are the people behind the small family-run shops and businesses that give Cork city its soul and character.

The US has formally barred companies from countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on more than €14.25 worth of reconstruction contracts.

NATO chose Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as its new secretary general yesterday.

The Nato allies today picked Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as the defence alliance’s next secretary general.

The Dutch Foreign Minister has emerged as the front-runner to become the next NATO secretary general after an eight month search for a successor to Britain’s George Robertson.

A VICIOUS thief who stabbed a young man in the neck, then stole his car, was trying to murder him, the surgeon who patched up the deep wound told the victim’s father.

GARDAÍ fear a long-running gang war in Dublin is escalating following the attempted murder of a youth yesterday morning.

A GARDA hunt was underway yesterday after one of Dublin's top criminals went on the run just as he was due to be sentenced for armed robbery.

Canada's foreign minister says the bombing of Afghanistan has put Osama bin Laden's terrorist network on the defensive.

World governments responded nervously to President George W Bush’s decision to build a shield against ballistic missile attack, dubbed Son of Star Wars, with some saying they feared the plan could jeopardise global security.