One of the men responsible for the ‘Celebgate’ phishing attack, Edward Majerczyk, has pleased guilty to accessing more than 300 iCloud and Gmail accounts.

An American man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the email and online accounts of several female celebrities and stealing private information, including nude photos and videos, federal prosecutors have said.

CIARÁN Ó LIONÁIRD (Leevale AC) finished a close-up fourth in the tough ACC Conference meet at Franklin Park, Boston, where less than four seconds separated the top four finishers.

Lightning struck a group of boy scouts taking shelter from a storm in the US, killing the troop leader and leaving a 13-year-old boy clinically dead, in the latest tragedy to hit the organisation this week.