It’s not all screen time with the nation’s youth as new figures show children are also the biggest users of the country’s public libraries.

STEPHEN GALLAGHER (An Post/Sean Kelly/Martin Donnelly) set out from Ballinamore yesterday morning hoping for a stage win, but by last night he had introduced an exciting new dimension to this year’s FBD Insurance Rás by claiming the race leader’s yellow jersey in a three-man sprint into Claremorris.

Former England coaches Glenn Hoddle and Howard Wilkinson are among six candidates being considered to coach South Africa in their 2006 World Cup campaign.

Australian police are planning mass voluntary DNA tests for thousands of young to middle-aged men in the eastern city of Bundaberg as part of their investigation into the murder of British backpacker Caroline Stuttle.

A teenage British backpacker screamed in terror during a struggle which ended when she plunged 30 feet to her death from an Australian bridge.