Gawker Media, the online publisher ordered to pay $140m (€124m) to former wrestler Hulk Hogan over publication of a sex tape, yesterday filed for bankruptcy protection and is planning to put itself up for sale.

Irish troops could be training Somalian armed forces in Mogadishu within months, it emerged today.

THE second round of maths papers was taken by Junior and Leaving Certificate students at more than 700 schools around the country yesterday morning.

WITH only about 5,000 Leaving Certificate engineering students in exam halls because of the rescheduled English papers, Junior Certificate candidates felt most pressure on day two of the state exams.