There will be no quarter-final place for Ireland in the U17 European Championships for a third year in a row after the hosts could only manage a third draw in a row and bowed out of this year’s tournament.

A mother-of-four was remanded in custody until December 18 yesterday for fraudulently claiming €105,000 in social welfare in Cork over a six-year period.

Iraq’s interim government has voted to establish a tribunal to prosecute top members of Saddam Hussein’s regime for crimes against humanity, according to two people who attended the meeting.