A FAMILY friend of Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin has strongly denied reports that the couple got so drunk that they were unable to look after their three young children during a holiday to Portugal.

Mums to be are increasingly turning to the internet to bone up on their condition, it was revealed today.

Meath: Lagan Cement has welcomed a decision by Meath County Council to grant planning permission for a change of fuel use to allow it to co-fuel its kilns with Meat and Bone Meal (MBM).

The vice-chairman of the North's Policing Board has claimed that the RUC was prepared to sacrifice one of its own officers in the 1970s in order to protect an informer.

The most senior police officer in Derry told a businessman that the British army decided to shoot civilians to lure the IRA into a gun battle on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

A prominent businessman has told the Saville Inquiry that he told the RUC the IRA would not be active in Derry on Bloody Sunday more than 32 years ago.

The British Army’s failure to divulge its plans for an arrest operation to the Bloody Sunday march organisers contributed to the shooting by paratroopers of 27 civilians, 13 of whom died, the Saville Inquiry today heard.