The motorist who died in a pile-up in the M7 on Wednesday evening has been named as Padhraic Moran, a well-known figure in the insurance industry and a cousin of former Kerry footballer Ogie Moran.

“I just want to live a normal life”. That’s the simple wish of publican Gerard Cahill from Mallow, Co Cork, who weighs almost 27 stone. He is one of 18 people hoping to become to an Operation Transformation leader.

A tiger has bitten an apparently drunk woman who broke into a zoo to pet a big cat, US police said.

SEBASTIAN BARRY’S latest novel, his eighth (just published in paperback), opens with a bang: the World War II torpedoing of a ship carrying British officers to Africa.

Robbie Power gave the Jessica Harrington-trained Ttebbob an enterprising ride to land the opening Munster Hurdle in Clonmel yesterday.

Mount Colah gave Banbridge, Co Down trainer, Jerry Cosgrave, his first success at Listed level when landing the Thurles Racecourse Supporters’ Club Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Marvin Humes has revealed the first picture of daughter Alaia-Mai.

UL would win by 37 points, a record-winning margin. They held DCU to just 27 points, another cup final record.

A POSTMORTEM on the body of a man found in a Clonmel apartment block was expected to reveal he was assaulted before his death.

A PAKISTANI gang rape victim who gained prominence for her outspoken stance on the oppression of women has given birth to a baby boy, her husband and hospital officials said.

The recovery of a missing fisherman’s body more than a month after he was lost at sea has brought bittersweet relief to his heartbroken family and friends, rescuers said.

A LIFELONG fisherman who celebrated his 64th birthday on December 30 is feared drowned after the small boat he was fishing on sank off the south-east coast at Duncannon, Co Wexford, yesterday morning.

A CITY’S martyred lords mayor were remembered last night in the first of a series of civic events marking the 90th anniversary of their deaths.

MOTHERS Alliance Ireland (MAI) respects Barry Walsh’s freedom to espouse ‘facts’ about the HPV vaccine that are contrary to those held by us (Letters, September 14).

IRELAND’S master puppeteer Eugene Lambert – the creator of unforgettable characters like Judge, Mr Crow, Sneaky Snake and Foxy Loxy – will be sadly missed by all who knew him, Arts Minister Martin Cullen has said.

Puppeteer Eugene Lambert, who has died suddenly aged 81, was remembered today as a master of his art.

IRELAND’S newest Lotto millionaires got a new road laid outside their house yesterday.

A YOUNG woman vowed yesterday to fight any plans to ban so-called dangerous breed dogs in Cork.

US actor Bruce Willis says he is glad to be back doing action films – but at 52, he admitted in Japan that surviving Die Hard 4.0 was no easy task.

POLITICIANS and rights groups condemned Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for saying in a US newspaper that rape had become a “money-making concern”, with some Pakistani women believing it was a ticket to settling abroad.

PAKISTAN'S Supreme Court overturned the acquittals of 13 suspects and ordered them re-arrested in connection with the gang rape of a village woman whose case drew international attention, court officials and a lawyer said.

FAR from the dusty village where she was brutally assaulted three years ago on the orders of a tribal council, Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai appeared before the Supreme Court in Islamabad yesterday.

Far from the dusty village where she was brutally assaulted three years ago on the orders of a tribal council, Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai appeared before the Supreme Court in the capital today to demand the reinstatement of death sentences for five of her alleged attackers.

PAKISTAN’S highest Islamic court has thrown out the controversial acquittal of five men convicted of raping a woman on orders from a village council in a case that shocked the world.

PAKISTAN’S highest Islamic court has thrown out the controversial acquittal of five men convicted of raping a woman on orders from a village council in a case that shocked the world.

Pakistan’s highest Islamic court has thrown out the controversial acquittal of five men convicted of raping a woman on orders from a village council in a case that shocked the world.

ARMED men stormed a house in an eastern Pakistan village yesterday, killing a couple, their son and two relatives in an attack carried out to avenge family honour.

Armed men stormed a house in an eastern Pakistan village today, killing a couple, their son and two relatives in an attack carried out to avenge family honour.

A village council in Pakistan ordered four men suspected in the killing of a woman to walk on fire in a centuries-old ritual to prove their guilt or innocence, police said today.

TWO years ago, mother-of-four Anne Nagle decided she was going back to school after she could have “wallpapered her walls” with the number of rejections she got when she applied for a new job.

MIRACLE man John Brennan is back in the driving seat. The 21-year-old, who survived a vicious assault in the US six months ago is back on the road in his massive 16-wheeler.

A PAKISTANI woman who confessed to having an affair was forced to marry her four-year-old son to her lover’s three-year-old daughter as part of punishment imposed by village elders.

A Pakistani woman who committed adultery has been forced to marry her four-year-old son to her lover's three-year-old daughter.

A 21-year old Kilkennyman who was left for dead after an attack in the US, got a hero's welcome yesterday to his family and friends who had gathered for an early Thanksgiving dinner.

A 21-YEAR-OLD Irishman seriously injured in an unprovoked attack in the US six weeks ago has made a miraculous recovery.

A 20-YEAR-OLD injured in an unprovoked attack in the US has been transferred out of intensive care.

FRIENDS and neighbours of an Irishman who was assaulted outside a bar in America are raising the $11,000-a-day care he needs after his insurance ran out last week.

A 20-YEAR-OLD Irishman who suffered serious head injuries in an unprovoked attack in the US has regained consciousness after being in a coma for almost a week.

A DISTRAUGHT family is hoping their youngest son will regain consciousness and be able to celebrate his 21st birthday in a fortnight’s time.

A Pakistani woman gang-raped by four men on the orders of a traditional village jury said she was satisfied with the six death sentences handed down for the crime yesterday.

Former Labour deputy Michael Moynihan has died.