A coroner has warned drug mules that they are playing “Russian roulette” after a 24-year-old Brazilian man suffered a painful death when one of more than 100 pellets of cocaine he had ingested burst on a flight from Lisbon to Dublin.

A BOY has been awarded €8,000 in compensation after he was asked to drop his trousers in a shop to prove he had not stolen a bottle of coke.

WHEN Eamon de Valera founded a new party in 1926 its official name was Fianna Fáil: The Republican Party.

IRISH net surfers will spend 330m on goods and services bought over the internet this year, experts predict.