The prospect of the Government selling 25% of its near total stake in AIB next year looks to have strengthened, with the bank yesterday noting continued trading momentum.

Premier League-winning footballer Danny Simpson will miss part of his team's historic title-winning celebrations and end of season bash after a judge ordered he must serve a curfew immediately for throttling his ex-girlfriend.

An inquest has found that a teenager in England burned to death after clipping a 250,0000-volt electricity cable in a prank at a railway depot.

Cork City 0 Liverpool XI 2: Toni Gomes and Yan Dhanda scored as a Liverpool XI beat Cork City in front of a 4,335 fans at Turner’s Cross on Saturday night.

When the chips were down in Paris, England’s dinner-suited players found themselves cast in the role of hapless bystanders among the pilgrims in downtown Rome, near the Vatican.

Kerry County Council is facing legal challenges from what could be termed opposite sides in its attempt to bring in new street trading laws in Kenmare.

Scottish cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld’s comic strips have been enlivening the Saturday Review section of The Guardian for years. Now he releases his first collection of those strips in a book titled You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack.

Manchester City could sue Carlos Tevez for any drop in his transfer value as a result of his alleged refusal to play for the club, according to an expert in employment law.

Birmingham may be able to put a block Alex McLeish joining Aston Villa as their new manager for up to three months, according to an expert in football law.

FARMERS, food producers and street traders will keenly follow a case scheduled for Supreme Court consideration on Wednesday, May 11.

GROUNDBREAKING stuff in Dublin 4. St Gerard’s have never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup but they paid scant attention to history yesterday by seeing off defending champions and 66-time winners Blackrock in this nip-and-tuck quarter-final.

KILMARNOCK goalkeeper Alan Combe was unhappy with referee Mike McCurry’s decision to give Celtic a penalty in the closing stages of yesterday’s 3-1 Premier League match at Rugby Park.

Gold medal hopeful Kelly Sotherton lies fifth in the heptathlon in Beijing after two events.

A romantic charmer that isn’t afraid to bring us real characters, with all their flaws, in a warming tale of the search for the perfect smacker.

Donal Hickey on the soaring rate of cetacean deaths.

IRISH EXAMINER food writer Darina Allen told the High Court yesterday she felt very strongly about the importance of local food markets in this country and believed they played a role in rural development.

Britain’s swimmers celebrated in a noisy corner of the packed Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne as Kirsty Balfour delivered the team’s third medal of the World Championships with a hard-earned silver in the 200metres breaststroke.

Ross Gaynor marked his debut for the Republic of Ireland’s U21 side with two important goals against Madeira tonight.

British journalists Toby Harnden and Julian Simmonds have today been acquitted of violating Zimbabwe’s immigration laws and ordered to be deported from the country.

Zimbabwean officials tonight defied a judge’s order to release two British journalists on bail, two weeks after they were detained near a polling station during Zimbabwe’s parliamentary election.

IRELAND’s U19 team lost to Denmark by 2-1 in their third and final game in the tournament in La Manga in Spain yesterday.

A British magazine editor involved in a high-society cocaine ring in Singapore has offered to bargain with prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Neil Robertson shook off the after-effects of a nightmare 12,000-mile journey to defeat Luke Simmonds 5-2 and move into the third qualifying round of the £250,000 European Open.