A "dirty old man" known as Father Christmas because of his white bushy beard and big belly has been jailed for 22 months in England for grooming two girls in a pub by attempting to bribe them to show him their "privates".

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

BIG TIME road racing returns to Blarney this weekend when the Blarney Cycling Club Festival of Cycling gets under way tomorrow night with the Osborne Butchers Criterium, followed by the Donal Crowley Memorial and Kay Stratton Memorial races on Sunday.

The procedures followed by French medical examiners to determine whether Henri Paul was drunk, had "inconsistencies", the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales was told today.

PAUL MURPHY of Banteer was the champion handler in the annual calf show held recently by the Young Members Association of the Irish Holstein Friesian Association in Cork.