AN American teenager has been crowned Miss World, but Ireland’s Emma Waldron did her country proud by coming fourth in the contest and gaining the top European beauty title.

THE judge hearing an action related to the privacy of the home of singer Van Morrison and his wife yesterday urged efforts be made over the weekend to move on the case which is set to go into its fifth day even though it was scheduled to take just two.

A JUDGE said it might be a case of not being able to see the woods for the trees when lawyers for Michelle Rocca and her neighbours squabbled over the legal definition of what was a shrub or a tree.

Negotiations have failed to settle a High Court privacy action taken by Van Morrison's wife Michelle Rocca.

HE hasn’t had a brown-eyed girl or a blue-eyed boy and he is pretty hacked off that his own website has claimed otherwise.

THE wife of Patrick Rocca, the multi-millionaire businessman found dead in a suicide shooting, said last night she was hurt by media speculation over her husband’s financial affairs.

The family of millionaire businessman Patrick Rocca, have been left numb by his sudden death, mourners at his funeral were told today.

The funeral takes place today of businessman and socialite Patrick Rocca who was found dead in a suspected suicide at his home earlier this week.

CATHAL RYAN, son of the late Ryanair founder Tony Ryan, has died a mere couple of months after his father.

A LETTER congratulating a candidate: Dear Friend, I congratulate you on coming through the convention. Because you wanted so badly to come through the convention.

FORMER Miss Ireland Michelle Rocca has flown to San Francisco with her ex-husband, footballer John Devine, to be at their daughter’s bedside after she was seriously injured in a car crash.