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Best known as a guitarist with Chicago post-rockers, Tortoise, Jeff Parker’s latest solo release is a glowing celebration of his mother Maxine, who features on the cover.

Trainer Mick Winters took the honours on Cork’s Easter Monday card, completing a double with Littlestickarubarb and Osca Loca.

Two ladies dominated day two in Killarney, Maxine O’Sullivan ensuring a day to remember for her family when winning aboard Citizen Al before doubling up in the bumper, aboard the gambled-on Raya Time, and Rachael Blackmore also completing a brace, aboard Icantsay and Benkei.

Families of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings have welcomed a legal ruling ordering a coroner in England to reconsider his decision to restrict the scope of inquests into the atrocity.

A self-confessed IRA bomb maker who was one of two men named in a landmark Granada TV programme in 1990 as one of those responsible for the Birmingham Pub bombings has issued an apology.

Latest: Families of the Birmingham pub bombing victims have been reacting to an interview tonight in which self confessed IRA bomber and suspect for the bombings Michael Christopher Hayes has said he is sorry innocent people were killed.

Fresh inquests into the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings are to get under way amid a war of words between lawyers and the British Government about legal funding.

Paddy Hill, one of the six men wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, has welcomed the decision to hold fresh inquests into the deaths of the 21 victims.

The gutsy seven-year-old Ravished bagged the €40,000 McSweeney Arms Hotel Killarney National for Mouse Morris, Gigginstown House Stud and Bryan Cooper in Killarney last night.

Europe’s comet lander Philae has come to rest in the shadow of a cliff, posing a potential problem for its solar panels, scientists said as they published the first image ever taken from the surface of a comet.

EastEnders was the big winner at tonight’s Inside Soap Awards, picking up the prestigious Best Soap gong as well as three other cast prizes.

Don and Maxine Simpson, who were married for more than 60 years, died while holding each other’s hand.

'Downton Abbey' leads this year's TVChoice Awards nominations.

Ray D'arcy returns with the series School Around the Corner on RTE One at 6.30pm tonight.

The Queen has said that Britain and Ireland shall “no longer allow our past to ensnare our future” at a historic state banquet in honour of President Michael D Higgins.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has said that Britain and Ireland shall “no longer allow our past to ensnare our future” at a historic state banquet in honour of President Michael D Higgins.

The sister of a woman killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings has called for the arrest of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness ahead of tonight’s state banquet.

There was a definite class act in action at yesterday’s Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point meeting at Dromahane for last season’s champion pointer/hunter chaser Mossey Joe lit-up the afternoon by destroying the opposition on his first start for handler Enda Bolger in the open lightweight.

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The Denis Prendergast-trained newcomer Free Expression lit up yesterday’s Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point at Dromahane by posting a terrific stamina-laden performance with Kevin Power to win a vintage second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Twenty-one-year-old Maxine O’Sullivan rode her first winner over fences with a highly competent display aboard Pals Leg, trained by her father, Eugene, in the Follow Us On Facebook Beginners Chase at Tramore yesterday.

Michael Winters is experiencing a fine run at present and Missunited’s handler sent out two winners in his absence at yesterday’s well-attended Dungarvan Harriers point-to-point fixture at Affane.

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Relatives of British IRA victims faced off in London over their view of the peace process outside an Irish Republican event addressed by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.

Martin McGuinness said “his heart goes out” to protestors at a peace lecture he is to give in a town bombed by the terror group.

Yesterday’s United Hunt Club’s point-to-point fixture at Bartlemy brought new meaning to the phrase marathon for there were no less than 11 races with proceedings concluding at 6.15pm, following a 1pm start.

No, not that Jen and Brad, and not that type of hooking up.

A liquid, oven-cleaning product is being taken off the shelves in Ireland after a toddler in Britain drank its corrosive contents.

An oven-cleaning product has been recalled due to safety concerns after a toddler drank the corrosive fluid.

AN innocent Dubliner shot during a bar-room dispute in Spain last month was described as “gentle giant” and “a big softie” at his funeral Mass yesterday.

The Chief Celebrant at the funeral of John O'Neill, the Irishman shot dead in Spain recently, said today that he was an innocent victim of an incident in which he had no part.

THE family of Irishman John O’Neill fear his body will not be returned to Ireland for weeks because it is part of an ongoing Spanish police investigation.

THE innocent Irish father-of-two who was brutally gunned down after a Spanish pub row escalated out of control only joined the argument as a peacemaker.

“IT could have happened to anyone.”

A MANHUNT is under way in southern Spain after an Irish father-of-two was shot dead in front of his partner while celebrating a friend’s wedding.

SCIENCE student Maxine O’Sullivan swaps her books for a saddle this weekend in her bid for one of Ireland’s hardest-won sports titles.

A QUIET mobile home park nestled among towering evergreens reeled yesterday in the aftermath of an unthinkable crime: five children slain in their own home, apparently by their father, who subsequently committed suicide.

British police today appealed for help in tracing a 13-year-old girl who may have travelled to Ireland with an older man.

Soham killer Ian Huntley claims it was his girlfriend Maxine Carr who orchestrated the cover-up of the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, it was reported today.

A High Court injunction was granted today banning disclosure of the whereabouts of Maxine Carr.

IT was claimed yesterday that the thought of Maxine Carr going on a wild night out may have pushed jealous and possessive Ian Huntley over the edge on the evening he killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.