The Irish rowing team have claimed two medals at the World Rowing Cup I in Belgrade this morning.

German central banker Carl-Ludwig Thiele cited economic data, freedom of choice and even Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky in a passionate defence of banknotes and coins, rejecting the rising concept of a “cashless society”.

AN 84-year-old pensioner confronted a burglar in her home and hit him with a walking stick while her daughter grabbed hold of him.