LIFE is a lottery, they say, and you certainly don’t get to pick your parents.

TURF CUTTERS representing 6,000 families hit by a ban on the non-commercial cutting of raised bogs have vowed to fight the measure all the way — even if it lands them behind bars.

Hundreds of firefighters bowed their heads in prayer as a cross made out of steel from the World Trade Centre was dedicated near the site of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash on September 11 2001.

WE in the Turf Cutters Association are seriously concerned to hear that the IFA has participated in negotiations with EU officials in Brussels in order to arrange what is effectively a buyout of owners’ interests.