One of RTÉ’s top earners, Miriam O’Callaghan, shared in a bumper 21% pay rise at her media firm last year, with directors enjoying a pay-pot of €204,238.

SO many of the addictions that beset this society, ruining lives and breaking up families, are plain to see. An alcohol addiction or a cocaine habit can be concealed for only so long and the crisis will be all too apparent to those with eyes to see.

US believes Russia buying time to crush Syrian rebels

TV3 have snatched Six Nations rights from 2018-21. Can Rugby Country sustain a coup of this magnitude? Here are some of the things we’ll miss.

Captain Blackadder: It’s the same plan that we used last time and the 17 times before that.

The best 40 minutes rugby we have seen in years upon years

RTÉ broadcaster Tom McGurk and his wife, PR guru Caroline Kennedy, want to prevent a building firm’s residential development on a former hospital site near their home in Dublin 4.

Hopes, plans, dreams — all scaled back yesterday at the Aviva.

Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill hopes his young players will take their chance to shine in tonight’s friendly against Malta at Ta’qali National Stadium.

I AM INDEBTED to George Hook.

THE Irish back-row, in the hot kitchen, with a mish-mash: this game of Cleudo carried no mysteries for Inspector Hook.

IT feels, this week and in this country, like someone should gently place a Sinatra record under a record player stylus as we bob downstream together towards oblivion.

An independent investigation into one of the North’s worst terrorist atrocities which left 15 people dead in a pub bombing found no evidence police colluded with the loyalist killers, it was revealed today.

A Co. Tyrone man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his former girlfriend in New York last year.

Donegal 1-11 Tyrone 0-12

Tyrone 1-20 Fermanagh 1-8

FORMER Irish international Conor O’Shea believes coach Declan Kidney is the key to Irish success in the autumn’s internationals.

While Cork and Kerry have mightily impressive credentials, Ulster teams will be confident that the Munster superpowers are far from invincible

The Omagh families have succeeded in turning the tables on the terrorists by humanising their plight while dehumanising the Real IRA. The perpetrators were unable to paint their opponents in court as large oppressive forces hostile to humanity, or even civil liberties for that matter

A 23-YEAR-OLD Irishman has been arrested in New York on suspicion of murdering his American ex-girlfriend.

THAT clanking noise you hear is the Irish football team slouching towards Croke Park today pulling the Triple Crown and Six Nations trophies plus a world title boxing belt behind them.

A BULGARIAN MP has called for an investigation into how his signature was on a document lodged by Libertas with the European Parliament seeking recognition and funding.

CONVERSATION with Tom McGurk isn’t long taking a picturesque turn.

The British government should hand over files on one of the biggest massacres of the North's conflict to resolve security force collusion allegations, it was claimed today.

JOHN McGURK of Libertas was on Morning Ireland (April 28) defending Declan Ganley of the anti-Lisbon treaty group Libertas who described the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a “weapon of mass destruction”.

Two men accused of beating a teenager to death were refused bail today amid claims they may interfere with witnesses.

An independent inquiry into the four day closure of City of Derry Airport over safety concerns was ordered tonight.

Closing arguments get under way today in a landmark case over a secret deal between Ryanair and the North's only publicly-owned airport.

A man shot six times in 2003 was killed because he stood up to dissident republicans, an inquest heard today.

Mayo 5-17 Leitrim 1-5

Detectives have identified the Real IRA gunmen they believe murdered Belfast father-of-five Danny McGurk.

Police in the North have arrested a 42-year-old man in connection with the murder of Danny McGurk in west Belfast earlier this year.

Detectives were questioning four people today about the brutal murder of a man gunned down in front of his children.

Detectives in Northern Ireland were questioning four people today about the brutal murder of a man gunned down in front of his children.

The IRA has abducted a dissident republican and warned his terrified girlfriend not to alert the police, it was claimed tonight.

Police in the North have released the two men arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of 35-year-old Danny McGurk last night.

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with the murder of 35-year-old Danny McGurk in west Belfast last month.

A priest at the funeral of murdered west Belfast man Danny McGurk today labelled his killers the “devil’s disciples“.

The funeral of murdered west Belfast man Danny McGurk, shot dead at his home last weekend by dissident republicans, takes place today.

DETECTIVES discovered a batch of arms and explosives in the possession of a Belfast taxi driver during their hunt for the killers of a father of six, a court heard yesterday.

A 41-year-old man arrested in the North by police investigating the murder of west Belfast man Danny McGurk last weekend is due before magistrates in Belfast today.

Police in the North are continuing to question three men and woman arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of Daniel McGurk in west Belfast.

Gunmen who shot a west Belfast man dead at his home were drunk when they did it, the victim’s mother said today.

The Real IRA has been blamed for the murder of a 35-year-old father-of-six who was shot dead in west Belfast yesterday morning.