While every charity relies heavily on the public’s generous donations to fund its services, the Irish Guide Dogs also needs an army of volunteers every year to help with the breeding and raising of its puppies. Susan O’Shea met some of those involved.

A boy of 15 was today served with a book of evidence and remanded on bail to await trial over an €8,000 cocaine seizure in Clondalkin, in Dublin, last July.

An Iraqi doctor today became the first person to appear in court charged in connection with the suspected car bomb plots in London and Glasgow.

There was relief but little joy tonight in the US as the country came to terms with the execution of Timothy McVeigh, its worst-ever mass murderer.