IRISH shoppers are being forced to pay more than their British counterparts for the same items of clothing in leading high-street stores.

Dozens are feared dead today after a bus skidded off a narrow mountain road and plunged into a river in a remote region of Indian Kashmir.

FOUR more people, including two teenagers, have taken their own lives in the south-east region since the triple drowning of a mother and her two daughters last weekend.

Red Cross officials in India’s remote Andaman islands accused the government of ”hijacking” their relief materials today, as squabbles over aid continued in the archipelago devastated by the tsunami.

RYANAIR could compete with Iarnród Éireann on inter-city routes, according to the carrier’s deputy chief executive officer Michael Cawley.

Eddie Cassidy,

Frankie Dettori admitted to his impatience ahead of Saturday’s showdown at Ascot.