Stuart Bingham has revealed how a casual jibe from Irish cueman Mark Allen spurred him to become world champion.

Ireland’s world champion walker credits his success to hard work and the support of his wife and family, says Jonathan deBurca Butler.

A little goes a very long way. Only 30 episodes of the cult Hanna-Barbera animated series ‘Top Cat’ were made in the early 1960s but the colourful cartoon caper about a felonious feline and his moggy mates has enjoyed re-runs here ever since.

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Political Editor Harry McGee interviews Health Minister Micheál Martin.

Substantial numbers of coalition troops were near the centre of Baghdad today and had no plans to pull back, a US Central Command spokesman said.

Police want to question a Mexican man whose wife and three American children were shot execution-style and dumped in a cornfield outside Mexico’s second-largest city.

The opening ceremony of the World Athletics Championships was followed by the men’s marathon which was won by Gezahenge Abera of Ethiopia in a time of two hours, 12 minutes and 42 seconds.