A NOVEL about slavery was named in Dublin yesterday as the €100,000 winner of the world’s largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

Three Irish writers have been named on the list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005.

THE family of an Irish engineer shot dead in Saudi Arabia said last night that the tragedy would haunt them for the rest of their lives.

The body of an Irish man shot dead in Saudi Arabia will not be brought home for two weeks, it emerged tonight.

The Irish man shot dead in Saudi Arabia yesterday was the brother of well-known poet Rita Ann Higgins, it emerged today.