The operator of a soup kitchen network claimed he was warned not to set up in Ennis, Co Clare, as a woman there allegedly warned him that “she didn’t want any blacks, winos, or Travellers” in the town.

A NIGHTCLUB erupted in a raging fire during a pyrotechnics display at a rock concert, killing at least 95 people and injuring more than 160 others as frantic mobs rushed to escape.

The guitarist with the band performing when a fire erupted at a US nightclub is among the missing, it was confirmed today.

THE two men arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 10 Washington-area sniper slayings this month will be charged with murder and face the death penalty for an earlier killing in Alabama, authorities in the southern state said yesterday.