IN the economics of football, this is an undeniable boom period for Dr Crokes.

The first image from a film depicting the ordeal of the girlfriend of a British backpacker murdered in the Australian Outback more than five years ago was released today.

DETECTIVES investigating the rape of a young woman on an isolated country road have appealed to three men who witnessed but did not take part in the assault to come forward.

A holiday in the Canary Islands turned to tragedy when a 19-year-old Co Leitrim man drowned within 24 hours of arriving at the Playa del Ingles resort on Gran Canaria.

A youth who sexually assaulted and strangled an elderly nun in the grounds of a convent in Co Monaghan has been jailed for life for murder.

The chairman of the Morris Tribunal has appealed to legal teams at the inquiry not to let the proceedings drag on unnecessarily.

The woman whose allegations form a central part of investigations into garda corruption in Donegal is due to give evidence to the Morris Tribunal later today.

An exacting question-and-answer session between two garda superintendents continued today at another session of the Morris Tribunal into alleged Garda corruption.

The superintendent at the centre of garda corruption allegations in Co Donegal will continue cross-examining a fellow superintendent at the Morris Tribunal later today.

TWO senior Garda officers centrally caught up in allegations about corruption in the force were involved in day-long face-to-face exchanges at the investigating Morris Tribunal yesterday.

A superintendent at the centre of garda corruption allegations in Co Donegal has begun personally cross-examining another superintendent to whom some of the allegations were made.

THE woman at the centre of the Morris Tribunal has claimed her estranged garda husband held a gun to her head.

A Co Monaghan man arrested by detectives investigating the 1998 Omagh bombing was granted bail by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

ONE of the key witnesses in the tribunal into allegations of garda corruption in Donegal faced pressure to withdraw claims her husband was involved in staging hoax explosives finds, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

HIGH winds, driving rain and thick fog on Carrantouhill have dashed the record bid to conquer the five highest mountains in Ireland and Britain.

A vicious sex attacker who strangled a nun in the grounds of her convent could strike again, gardai warned today.