Ireland’s Elite boxers are guaranteed at least three bronze medals at the European Union Elite Championships after recording a hat-trick of quarter-final wins in Bulgaria yesterday.

The former wife of the owner of Blarney Castle received a public apology and damages at the High Court in London over defamatory allegations published in a blog after she separated from her husband.

A night of drama at the National Stadium last night in the 2013 Elite National Championships, the birth of a new legend, the end of another as the great light-heavyweight Kenneth Egan, seeking a record 11th title in a record 13 consecutive final appearances, was forced to give way for the third year in succession to the more powerful teenager, Joe Ward.

AN 18-year government ban on media coverage of the return of fallen US servicemen and women ended with a solemn ceremony for the arrival of a flag-draped coffin of an airman killed in Afghanistan.

Two people being questioned by gardaí over the murder of a man in an attempted carjacking were tonight released from custody.

Shrek star Mike Myers is to feature in a remake of the classic film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, it was reported today.

The suspected suicide attack inside a US Army mess hall in Iraq represents a breach of the most basic principles of military security and points to significant weaknesses in the screening of Iraqis who are allowed onto the base, US experts say.