After 43 years in prison and 30 parole hearings, US parole officials have again decided it is safe to free Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis.

This week, we look at family adventure Paddington and comedy sequel Horrible Bosses 2.

Des O’Sullivan says the work of several Limerick artists are featured among the 249 lots on offer.

A Silver Cross pram made double its guide, says Des O’Sullivan.

Cork artist Fin Dac is building quite a reputation with his impressive murals, writes Marc O’Sullivan.

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was a murderer and violent criminal but it was the long-accepted fact he was an FBI informant that he was most concerned with denying, writes Michael Clifford

Suspensions totalling 60 weeks have been handed out to players and officials involved in a melee near the end of a recent Meath SHC game between Gaeil Colmcille and Drumree at Longwood.

At the Cottage Door, an 1875 watercolour by Cork born artist William Magrath (1838-1918) is at Adams in Dublin next Wednesday. The estimate is €1,000-€2,000.

Hot Tub Time Machine (Cert 15, 94 mins, Comedy/Romance)

SHORT-TERM health spending cuts could end up costing the State more in the long-term, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has warned.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has revised the projected shortfall in its 2009 budget downwards from €1.2 billion to €480 million.

THE European Commission is to take up the issue of punishing hours worked by junior hospital doctors with the Government.

Doctors’ representatives today demanded health chiefs reverse planned slashes in payments and allowances to young medics.

AFTER successfully disrupting Government agencies and departments yesterday, lower paid civil servants are to begin a campaign of locally based work protests on March 9.

CLASS, youth and fitness made all the difference at Athlone yesterday when Leinster won the Golfsure Interprovincial Championship for the first time since 2004 by beating Munster 7-6 in an enthralling decider.

Munster edged out Leinster on a count back to snatch the Golfsure Interprovincial Matches for the first time in ten years at Co Louth.

The Spanish government has filed claims in a US federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with a colonial-era treasure, an attorney said today.

Gardaí will give evidence from behind a screen during the inquest of two men shot dead by officers during a post office robbery, it emerged today.

Rory McIlroy lost his way on the back nine as Czech champion Marek Novy grabbed the first round lead in the AIB Irish Amateur Open at Royal Dublin.

Walker Cup skipper Colin Dalgleish has hailed Holywood star Rory McIlroy as a similar talent to Spanish wonderkid Sergio Garcia.

Ulster and Leinster today enjoyed convincing Interprovicial victories at the Ballyliffin Golf Club.

Ulster and Leinster both hold comfortable leads at the Interprovincial Championship at Ballyliffin after today's action.

GAVIN HENSON last night had his 72-day ban reduced by three weeks after a four-hour appeal hearing in Dublin.

A RARE mountainside relic in West Cork that stands as a symbol to the copper mining industry internationally has been restored.

Scores from the Irish Amateur Open Championship at Carton House Golf Club (O'Meara Course).

WITH the bang of a drum and a high-pitched wail, the first funerals began for victims of a teenager’s shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where 10 people died.

Holywood teenager Rory McIlroy cruised into the last 16 of the Standard Life West of Ireland Championship with two brilliant performances at Rosses Point.

FOUR of Ireland’s finest have qualified for this morning’s semi-finals of the Shell South of Ireland at Lahinch.

NOEL PYNE first played in the Shell South of Ireland Championship when still a leaving certificate student at St Flannan’s College, Ennis.

Mullingar’s John Morris opened with a five under par 67 to take a one shot lead in the East of Ireland Amateur Open Championship at Co Louth yesterday.

Charlie Mulqueen, Rosses Point

A MINIMUM prize fund of €25,000 has been put up for this season’s Formula Ireland championship that will begin in Kirkistown on April 5.

A BIRDIE, birdie finish enabled Eoin O'Sullivan, a 27-year-old Dubliner from The Island club, to turn a two shot deficit with two to play into a one stroke advantage as he clinched the biggest victory of his career at Mullingar yesterday.

British police have launched a murder inquiry into the death of a Co Wexford man in a car park in Luton.