The former operators of the State’s National Procurement Service website e-tenders has had to apologise after it used the NPS database to email clients while criticising the new version of the website.

Two people have today been arrested for allegedly turning an alligator loose in a city lake, prompting Los Angeles officials to bring in reptile wranglers, keep crowds at bay and impose heavy patrols.

The elusive alligator discovered in a Los Angeles lake has become quite the celebrity, so a theme park in Florida wants to help the city capture it and maybe give it a little star treatment.

WITH national champion and record-holder Paul McKee and runner-up Rob Daly opting for the 200m, bronze medallist Antoine Burke will carry Irish hopes in a star-studded 400m at the Dublin International Games tonight.