PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON is not about to throw in the towel but he has confessed he’s now staring at the near impossible odds of capturing a second European Number One crown.

ROSS HICKEY and Eamon O’Kane both took bronze medals from the European championships in Liverpool last night as Ireland repeated the haul from the Europeans in Madrid in 1971 when flyweight, Neil McLaughlin, bantamweight Mick Dowling and featherweight Brendan McCarthy all took medals.

A witness has told the Bloody Sunday inquiry that soldiers started shooting at stone throwers immediately after leaping out of their vehicles in Derry's Bogside.