Robert Heffernan will face a stiff challenge to win the European 50km race walk title on the streets of Zurich this morning but his wife and coach, Marian, believes he’s in as good a shape as ever.

A Polish woman wanted for prosecution in Germany under drug trafficking laws has been arrested in Co Wicklow.

RESCUERS last night abandoned hope of finding more survivors in the wreckage of an exhibition hall that collapsed in southern Poland.

Polish authorities said today that they were unlikely to find more survivors under the twisted wreckage of an exhibition hall that collapsed during a racing pigeon show, killing at least 66 people and injuring 160.

Rescuers were today searching for victims buried when the roof of an exhibition hall in southern Poland collapsed on a racing pigeon show, killing at least 65 people and injuring a further 160.