A man described by police as the “Mr Big” of UK cyber crime is believed to be among plotters who stole £1.3m (€1.5m) from a bank branch by taking control of its computer system.

An Australian Football League player was fined and forced to apologise to a dwarf entertainer set on fire during a prank in arguably the sport’s most bizarre end-of-season celebration.

The low-profile former Mr Big of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, who was responsible for one of its most notorious murders, now runs a drugs operation in Limerick and Cork with a well-known former businessman, it has emerged.

The Forgotten Waltz

VETERAN jockey Josef Vana won the Velka Pardubicka at Pardubice yesterday for a seventh time when landing back-to-back victories on Tiumen.

Chris Noth has said the 'Sex and the City' movies are "dead".

Cross-country grand master Garde Champetre is to make his traditional reappearance in the Vendee Hurdle at Thurles on October 21 before chasing further Cheltenham glory.

Chris Noth thinks 'Sex and the City 2' examines Mr Big's relationship with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker).

A FORMER boxing champion behind an “evil conspiracy” to import a multi-million euro consignment of drugs was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in jail, with the last two years suspended.

Jason Lewis could be in line to make a surprise return for the 'Sex And The City' movie sequel.

Evan Handler and David Eigenberg have been confirmed to appear in the 'Sex And The City' movie sequel.

'Sex And The City’s' New York style icons came to London for the world premiere of a movie charting the characters’ lives four years on.

A GARDA told the High Court yesterday that a man had a reputation as a drug dealer and money lender before he was allegedly libelled by a newspaper accusing him of being a Traveller “drug king”.

SEVERAL Irishmen are believed to be among 22 suspected members of a huge international drugs gang arrested by British police yesterday.

'Sex and the City' star Chris Noth and his girlfriend are celebrating the birth of their first child, a baby boy.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) yesterday arrested the man claimed to be a key figure in Munster’s sex industry.

DAVID Ryan, who trains outside Tuam in Co. Galway, took the honours at Down Royal yesterday when recording a double with Mr Big and Foretto.

GARDAÍ in Limerick said they are confident of another breakthrough in their investigation into the murder of night club bouncer Brian Fitzgerald.

A LIMERICK gang has brought in reinforcements from England while shootings continued yesterday in the latest flare-up in the city feud.

A LIMERICK father and his four sons are making legal history.

HE’S 27 and controls one of the biggest drugs networks in the country.

GARDAÍ in Limerick are finalising a legal action to confiscate €60,000 in cash they discovered during a raid on the apartment of former publican Jim ‘Chaser’ O’Brien.

LIMERICK’S drugs gangs have suffered another major blow with the arrest in London of the man believed to be the city’s Mr Big in crime.

Nobody is above the law, Justice Minister Michael McDowell insisted today as gardaí struggled to cope with a murderous surge in gangland violence in Dublin.

CHARMING, complex, controversial and corrupt. Reprehensible but not entirely unlikeable.

Kevin Costner has been in need of a great film like this for several years. The man who grabbed a clutch of Oscars recently suffered a massive career slump via several of the worst films ever made.

After six years and a string of awards, hit television show Sex and the City comes to an end in the USA today.

Chris Noth, who for five years has played the dashing Mr Big in Sex And The City, is trying to shed that image by taking roles radically different from the big-city bachelor.

Sexy Chris Noth says he can’t get anywhere on the streets of Manhattan without someone calling “Mr Big” out to him.