Tottenham have handed "indefinite" bans to three supporters who tried to sell their Champions League final tickets on a secondary ticketing platform.

EA’s chief operating officer, Peter Moore, believes that Hideo Kojima and Konami will be able to put the drama of the last few months behind them.

EA’s COO Peter Moore says that EA is prepared to delay the release of Star Wars: Battlefront if something goes wrong in the run-up to the game’s launch.

A regional airport is said to be close to an agreement with a windfarm developer in relation to the cost of adjusting its technology to allow aircraft land safely.

Illegal drugs worth £25,000 (€29,000) have been seized from sex shops in Belfast.

A regional airport is opposing plans for a wind farm, on the grounds that it may cause hazards for aircraft using the facility.

LIKE the fox, it seems the otter is also adapting to living in urban areas, including Cork City where they are seen regularly at night on the River Lee.

Games producer Electronic Arts is to create 300 multilingual jobs at its customer service centre in the IDA Business Park in Galway City, adding to the 400 people already employed at EA’s Bioware division in Parkmore West.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today welcomed the creation of 300 jobs EA’s European Customer Experience Centre of Excellence in Galway.

Claims a controversial wind- monitoring mast was a likely source of danger to planes using Kerry Airport have been rejected by the Irish Aviation Authority.

Actor Michael Twomey isn’t usually late for his entrances but today he is keeping his audience waiting.

AN Air Corps CASA aircraft yesterday made an emergency landing at Kerry Airport, after smoke was detected in the cabin while on fisheries patrol.

One of the people Tiger Woods hugged after giving the most difficult speech of his life yesterday said he had never seen the world number one so emotional

Negotiations are continuing to release the body of the fifth British hostage seized in Iraq as the UK Foreign Office scotched claims he may still be alive.

British hostage Peter Moore today said he was “delighted” to have been freed from captivity in Iraq and was looking forward to “getting to know” his family again.

Secret talks between American negotiators and Peter Moore’s captors were being held without the British Government’s knowledge, the father of the freed British hostage claimed today.

Preparations were today under way for the return to the UK of former hostage Peter Moore after his release yesterday from two and a half years of captivity in Iraq.

A BRITISH computer expert kidnapped in Iraq with four bodyguards in 2007 has been released, Britain said yesterday, adding that he was in “remarkable” spirits.

THE two bodies handed over to British authorities in Iraq are those of British hostages seized two years ago, government sources said yesterday.

The remains of two British hostages handed to authorities in Iraq were identified by forensics today, UK government sources said.

More than 70 people from South East Asia have been charged in connection with a £15m (€18m) drug manufacturing operation in the North, police revealed today.

Cannabis with a street value of almost £8.5m (€10.7m), and allegedly cultivated by Chinese people in the North, has been seized by police, it was revealed today.

Josip Skoko and Salomon Olembe have been released by Wigan boss Steve Bruce, who has opted not to renew their contracts.

With all the attention focused on title-chasing jockeys Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer at Doncaster, the casual racegoer could be forgiven for paying the £75,000 totesport.com November Handicap little more than polite notice.

MICROSOFT has sided with rival Nintendo in the fight to unseat video game leader Sony as the battle for supremacy in the €30 billion video games industry intensifies.

Entrepreneur Alan Sugar will put 14 apprentices through their paces as the host of a new BBC TV show.

JK Rowling’s fifth Harry Potter book has been shortlisted for the adult fiction prize at this year’s WHSmith Book Awards.