The Liam Burke-trained newcomer Nambour lit up yesterday’s well attended but bitterly cold Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point meeting at Dromahane by destroying the opposition in the second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

A nurse — a mother-of-two on her way to work — died in an early morning crash yesterday which also claimed the life of an elderly driver.

A trainee teacher says he was told to get out of a taxi in Glasgow because he was speaking Irish.

OFFALY put the disappointment of last year’s Gala All-Ireland junior camogie final defeat firmly behind them as they ran out comprehensive winners in yesterday’s decider at Croke Park.

UNIONS at troubled diamond firm Element Six last night rejected a charge by management that workers are engaging in ‘blue flu’ style unofficial action.

Workers at the under-threat industrial diamond firm Element Six are to vote on whether to strike as management attempt to secure a rescue package, it was revealed tonight.

WORKERS at Element Six stormed out of a meeting with management yesterday and later downed tools, after claims that a new redundancy package offer is worse than the previous package.

A plan that could save 160 jobs at international diamond giant Element Six was tonight criticised by unions.

THIS country’s lack of competitiveness was yesterday blamed for another huge jobs loss when international diamond giant Element Six (E6) announced the lay off of 370 workers at Shannon, claiming its Irish operation was the most expensive in the world.

WORKERS at Element Six said they were particularly “gutted” by the redundancy package being offered by the company.

A NUMBER of internationally renowned authors have been confirmed as participants in the Ennis Book Club Festival 2008, details of which were announced today.

The Ireland panel for the first ever Ladies International Rules Series will be whittled down to 20 players after Saturday's final trial in Mullingar.

CHAMPIONS Leinster are favourites to retain the Ladies Inter-provincial football title in Mullingar this weekend, but Munster are gunning for revenge after losing last year’s final.

TWO Irish authors are on the shortlist for the biggest books prize in the world, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, it was announced yesterday.

Ireland's top writers have come together to voice their opposition to the war through the power of the pen.

Monaghan 2-11, Waterford 3-7