BANBRIDGE Academy became just the third school to retain the All-Ireland Schoolboys crown in its 30-year history as Owen Magee grabbed a winner 14 minutes from time to deny Ulster rivals Cookstown in Garryduff yesterday.

EMBATTLED TD Michael Lowry stepped up his attack on the Moriarty Tribunal claiming their findings would not stand up in a pub let alone a courtroom and that he had been a victim of a witch hunt.

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien denied ever paying a red cent to former communications minister Michael Lowry and claimed he had won the state’s second mobile phone licence fairly.

The Moriarty Tribunal has been told that there was no evidence of a conspiracy to ensure the Esat Digifone consortium was awarded a mobile phone licence in 1995.

Businessman Denis O'Brien has said the Moriarty Tribunal "lacks credibility".

GOLFERS who think too much about their shots could be harming their game.

Golfers who think too much about their shots could be harming their game, a report said today.

ASTRONAUTS on the shuttle Columbia were trying to regain control of their craft before it broke apart in 2003, but there was no chance of surviving the accident, says a Nasa report.

The nominees have been announced for the annual Guinness Ulster Rugby Awards Dinner which will be held on Thursday May 18, at the Ramada Hotel.

The body of Martin Luther King's wife Coretta Scott King arrived in her home city of Atlanta early today and was escorted through the darkened streets to a funeral home in the south-west part of the city.

Pieces of an Israeli astronaut’s diary, which plunged to earth with the stricken Columbia space shuttle, have been found in a field, it emerged today.

The final moments of the lives of the crew of the doomed shuttle Columbia’s that were captured on video and are to be released tonight.

INVESTIGATORS were last night focusing on Columbia’s left wing as they tried to determine what destroyed the space shuttle, killing all seven astronauts on board.

The remains of all seven astronauts aboard the Columbia have been found, Nasa said today, as the investigation continued into what caused the shuttle to disintegrate.

One focus of attention in the investigation into the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia is possible damage to its protective thermal tiles on the left wing from a flying piece of debris during lift-off on January 16.

Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, gave a troubled country something to cheer about when he blasted off on January 16 on the space shuttle Columbia.