Your recent editorial (Jan 2) describes the European Union as the factor which, “more than anything”, makes a recurrence of a world war seem impossible.

The frustrating Deep Speed can finally enjoy a turn, and land the nap in the process, in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Peter Fahey’s Owega Star should now be primed to strike and gets the nap in the Kevin McManus Beginners Chase at Listowel this afternoon.

The remarkable Inis Meain, a tremendous success story over the last few months for Denis Hogan, did it again at Listowel yesterday when landing the featured Guinness Handicap.

GEORGE Lee’s resignation is an act of disloyalty to the 27,000 people who voted for him and to the hundreds of people who canvassed for him.

A deal has been reached for a reduced sentence of 15 years at the Spanish trial of an Irish man accused of beating his partner to death at their holiday home three years ago.

The jury in the trial of a Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering another inmate in a stabbing incident has heard that the deceased was an “extremely aggressive and hostile” bully who was “totally unpredictable”.

THE mother of a Dublin woman, beaten to death in Spain two years ago, has spoken of her heartache as she awaits the trial of her daughter’s alleged killer.

The Government will not step in to help pay legal costs to the family of an Irish woman beaten to death while on holiday in Spain, it said today.

A MOTHER of a young woman killed in Spain is pleading with the Government to help pay for a solicitor to assist in a forthcoming trial.

SEVEN weeks after she was beaten to death in front of her children, the body of a Dublin mother-of-three was flown home from Spain.

CELINE CONROY’s mother feels she might have saved her daughter’s life if she told her she had cancer.

AN Irishman appeared in a Spanish court yesterday on suspicion of killing his partner.

THE flats complex has been dubbed Little Beirut by some locals.

A 28-year-old Dubliner is due before a Spanish court today in connection with the death of his partner at a holiday resort in the south of the country at the weekend.

Cormac O’Keeffe and Owen Conlon

An Irish man was due to appear in court after his his wife was found battered to death at a holiday villa on the Costa Blanca in Spain, it emerged tonight.