It was a victory to savour for the locals as Donegal cousins Declan Boyle and Brian Boyle (Subaru) won the Letterkenny-based Donegal International Rally, round four of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship.

Rachel Borrill says age is no barrier to fitness. If you are over-50, start now.

Derval O’Rourke has expressed frustration at the wait to receive her European indoor bronze medal.

Tom Murphy’s The House exposes the returning emigrant’s frail sense of place, says Pádraic Killeen

A US woman is trying to eat her way to become the fattest bride in history.

TWO women aboard a JetBlue flight said flight attendant Steven Slater, hailed by some as a folk hero, was rude to passengers and instigated the confrontation that resulted in his barrelling down an emergency chute from the plane and, ultimately, his arrest.

The sister of a German aid worker kidnapped last month in Iraq today appealed for her compatriots to demonstrate for her release in a signal of solidarity with the captive.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder used Al-Jazeera television today to issue an appeal for the release of a German aid worker and her Iraqi driver who were kidnapped on November 25.

Pop Idol's Susanne is reportedly devastated by newspaper claims that she has fallen out with Michelle.

Pop Idol contestants Michelle McManus and Susanne Manning are said to have fallen out.

A family of five killed in the France train fire was returning from a one-day visit to Paris to see the city where the father had proposed to his future wife more than 16 years earlier.