Had you predicted a few years back that the 2014 SSE Airtricity League Premier Division title race would be a straight shootout between Dundalk and Cork City, you’d have to forgive people for giving you a few strange looks.

A couple in England who hanged a dog because they did not want to pay to have it put down have been spared jail.

THIRTY per cent of food purchased by households in Ireland is wasted, so we need new methods of its disposal.

OH Gio, the cat was not in the sack these few weeks!

Cork 1-22 Limerick 2-15

IT was the Irish writer Flann O’Brien who said that questions are like beggars at the door, and should not be minded.

Barack Obama is flying high, but Hillary Clinton is fighting back, writes Karen McCarthy.

The great divide between the rich and the poor would be catastrophic in the event of a global flu pandemic, Mexico’s health minister said yesterday, and called on developed nations to put aside some of their influenza drugs for the less influential ones.

As China reported its third outbreak of bird flu in a week, public health groups have urged officials to bypass patent laws and mass-produce generic versions of potentially lifesaving anti-viral drugs.

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New York has gone into security lockdown as it prepares for the United Nations summit, the biggest meeting of world leaders in history.

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The Garda Representative Association has expressed outrage at a statement released yesterday by the IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday conceded the release of the killers of Detective Jerry McCabe is a key factor in negotiating peace in Northern Ireland — a complete reversal of written Government commitments to the McCabe family.

THE GOVERNMENT came under intense pressure last night to disclose whether or not it was prepared to release the killers of Detective Jerry McCabe last October as part of a deal to restore the Northern Assembly.

Gangland feuding has become so widespread Limerick city that ordinary garda investigations are suffering, it was claimed today.

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