The Cork-born lead singer of UK hitmakers The Overtones has spoken of the traumatic bullying he suffered at school.

The Overtones’ Timmy Matley from Farranree, Cork, left Deerpark School before his Leaving Cert and went to London to follow his dream of becoming a singer.

A group of painter-decorators, led by Corkman Timmy Matley, is painting the town red after landing a major record deal.

The hundreds of thousands of people missing in Iraq are just the tip of the country’s looming humanitarian crisis, the International Red Cross warned today.

America’s CBS News has mounted an aggressive defence of its report about President George Bush’s service in the Air National Guard, saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic experts came from “what we consider to be solid sources”.