The uncle of 18-year-old Kym Owens has described how her family’s life “has come to a standstill” following the vicious assault, which has left her in an induced coma since November.

CANADIAN billionaire Galen Weston has donated thousands of euro towards the restoration of an RAF Spitfire dug from a Co Donegal bog earlier this summer.

THE wreckage of a Spitfire aircraft including its Rolls Royce engine was dug from a peat bog yesterday 70 years after it crashed in neutral Irish territory during the Second World War.

ATTEMPTING to physically undermine Joe Jordan in footballing days gone by was only slightly less dangerous than offering a “no comment” to Tomas de Torquemada.