Irish Olympic medals are something like London buses — you wait for ages for one to come along and then three arrive together.

Showjumper Cian O’Connor has said the reason he won Ireland’s first medal of London 2012 today is because he can perform at the big events.

The electrics on board a boat, which caught fire and sank resulting in the deaths of three men, were in poor condition, unsafe, and potentially dangerous, the Marine Casualty Investigation Board has found.

THE sole survivor of a fishing boat fire tragedy which claimed the lives of his three friends said he has daily thoughts of the accident.

THE SON of one of the men who perished in the fishing tragedy off West Cork should have been aboard the ill-fated fishing vessel — but decided at the last minute to help a neighbouring farmer “save the hay”.

Homer, Bart and the rest of the TV Simpson family are to be turned into US theme park rides.

OSCAR FREIRE edged a classic sprint finish to win the fifth stage of the Tour de France yesterday as Tom Boonen retained the yellow jersey.

JESSICA KÜRTEN jumped four flawless rounds yesterday to win the Dubai Masters at the Al Maktoum Memorial Challenge and give herself the perfect fillip ahead of today’s cash-rich grand prix.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has praised the Taoiseach for his determination to secure an agreement on the proposed EU constitution.

IN THE weeks leading up to the budget it is not unusual to see an onslaught of whinging from the various interest groups across the economy.

IRELAND’S Billy Twomey jumped one of only three double clear rounds in the Samsung Grand Prix at Dublin Horse Show yesterday only to be beaten by the pace of Dutchman Wim Schroder and Eurocommerce Montreal.

HE may have angered Chirac and Schröder (Irish Examiner, Jan 24), but Donald Rumsfeld was playing a canny diplomatic game in claiming that France and Germany were merely the ‘old Europe.’

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has survived a vote of no confidence in the country’s parliament.

French president Jacques Chirac and Germany’s chancellor Gerhard Schroder have voiced fears over the US ‘‘Son of Star Wars’’ missile defence plan.

Calls for the creation of a European Government from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder were today sending shockwaves through Britain.