A former court clerk fined for threatening to kill a man he thought was having an affair with his wife has lost an appeal against his conviction.

The creative forces behind the entertainment phenomenon, Riverdance, have shared a pay bonanza of over €1.63m over the past two years.

Security cameras which could have captured the murder of a Catholic postman more than 12 years ago were not working when the gunmen struck, an inquest has been told.

A man purporting to have information about the murder of a Catholic postman more than 10 years ago was found dead at the bottom of a Belfast cliff, a coroner’s court has heard.

The creative forces behind the entertainment phenomenon Riverdance have shared a pay bonanza of €75 million since the turn of the century, figures show.

NOBODY can forget that heartstopping seven minutes during Eurovision 1994 when Ireland, quite suddenly, became the centre of the cultural universe. None of us, indeed, could have predicted what would swirl upwards and outwards from that brief entr’acte. But it happened, and a legend was born.

The creative forces behind Riverdance, John McColgan and Moya Doherty, still reap the benefits of the show.

A 50% increase in its US revenues contributed to pre-tax profits at the group that produces Riverdance increasing fivefold to €1.39m in 2010.

DENIS O’BRIEN and Dermot Desmond are among those investing in a Facebook-type website targeting the 70 million “Irish” worldwide.

A new social networking site for Irish people around the world has been unveiled.

IN the understandable furore over the Cloyne report I find it strange that the same level of outrage and media coverage never arises when abuse takes place outside religious institutions.

THEATRE student Sarah Louise McColgan from Cork city was last night awarded the 2010 Pat Murray Bursary.

THE holding company for Riverdance saw profits fall by more than €500,000 last year.

A WEBSITE designed to promote Ireland has the potential to become a world leader on the web and act as a major showcase for the country, according to an international expert on managing national identity and reputation.

IRELAND’S representative in cyberspace will be launched tomorrow with an aim to reinforce the Irish brand worldwide.

FOLLOWING the publication of my book, Haughey’s Forty Years of Controversy, I was invited on the late Gerry Ryan’s radio programme. I assumed the interview would be for about 12 minutes. I had done a couple of other interviews with him previously about Éamon de Valera, but we were in separate studios for each of those and had never actually met before.

WE have had to accept that terrible abuse was inflicted on thousands of children by evil and predatory paedophiles so we should not be easily shocked when another horror story kicks its way into our consciousness.

HOT Press editor Niall Stokes has begun a High Court action against millionaire music promoter Denis Desmond and Riverdance duo Moya Doherty and John McColgan.

IF Granuaile were alive today she would probably tie up her hair, grab her cutlass and lead a band of pirates to lay waste the Hilton Theatre on Broadway where a musical tribute to the Irish pirate is floundering.

A doctor called to a garda station to take a blood sample from a murder suspect could not recall him making any complaints, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Paula Radcliffe has announced she is pregnant – but insists she will carry on competing.

THE pair behind multi-million-euro show Riverdance are preparing to make their maiden voyage with a new big-budget musical production based on the life of 16th-century Irish pirate Grace O’Malley.

The pair behind multi-million euro show Riverdance are preparing to make their maiden voyage with a new big-budget musical production based on the life of 16th Century Irish pirate Grace O’Malley.

In the second part of our Top 50 list of the most influential figures in Irish music, Joe McNamee considers some of the surprising results.

TYRONE Productions, the television company owned by John McColgan and Moya Doherty, saw its losses increase by 250% last year.

Ian Guider

A TELEVISION production company run by Riverdance founders Moya Doherty and John McColgan recorded a loss last year.

WE are still living in a country with a Tír na n-Óg attitude to time, at least in a legal context. Why else would one of the most evil men who was ever forced into an Irish courtroom serve just nine years of the 238 years he earned for his horrific crimes?

IN 1995 he was sentenced to 238 years imprisonment, the longest sentence in Irish legal history, today he walks free.

RIVERDANCE duo John McColgan and Moya Doherty waltzed away with nearly €40 million in pay over two years.

Vandals have attacked the grave of a murdered Catholic postal worker near north Belfast, it emerged today.

High winds blowing relentlessly off the Solent ruined any hopes Sonia O’Sullivan had of breaking the world 10-mile record again at the BUPA Great South Run.

With sequins and thundering steps, the flashy Irish sensation Riverdance arrives in China this week for what organisers say will be the biggest foreign production to come to a land where Western entertainment used to be denounced as subversive.

MILLIONAIRE Riverdance duo John McColgan and Moya Doherty have side-stepped the biggest names in sport and entertainment to land a €2 million house in Co Kerry.

A special memorial mass is due to take place in Belfast later this morning to mark the first anniversary of murdered Catholic postman Danny McColgan.

A Stg£20,000 (€33,000) reward is being offered in a bid to catch the paramilitaries who murdered a young Catholic postman in Co Antrim.

Nationalist residents groups cast doubt today over their involvement in a conference on the Northern Ireland parades issue after two of their leading spokesmen received death threats from a renegade loyalist group.

Northern Secretary John Reid today demanded full political backing for the police service in a bid to catch paramilitary killers.

Detectives today revisited the scene of the murder of young Catholic postal worker Daniel McColgan in a bid to persuade more witnesses to come forward.

All paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland must disband and the problem of sectarianism be deplored, thousands of people attending trade union peace rallies in Northern Ireland were told today.

Postal workers throughout Northern Ireland were back at work today after the withdrawal of loyalist death threats made following the murder of postman Daniel McColgan.

Delivery services throughout most of Northern Ireland were returning to normal today after postal workers decided to call off their stoppage.

The loyalist group, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, has issued a statement condemning death threats against Catholic teachers and postal workers.

Police in the North have arrested a serving loyalist politician in connection with the murder of Catholic postman Daniel McColgan in north Belfast on Saturday.