IT’S expensive, painful and can be dangerous, but for thousands of Irish people cosmetic surgery helps them achieve their dream bodies. The most popular procedure is breast augmentation, but many women and men are having ‘tummy tucks’.

WORKERS have found a new way of beating the Monday morning blues — cheering themselves up by checking out cosmetic treatments on the internet.

A TEENAGER was being questioned last night after a father-of-two was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack outside a pub in west Dublin on Hallowe'en night.

HUNDREDS of people, many of the children, have been injured by fireworks since the Government first announced a review of 130-year-old legislation governing their use.