Ralph Waite, who played the kind-and-steady patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series The Waltons, died on Thursday, his manager said. He was 85.

The announcement that Kerry Group will create up to 900 jobs in Kildare within three years provided the ideal backing for the estimated 20,000 farmers demonstrating in Dublin on Tuesday.

ULSTER plundered the lion’s share of the titles from last night’s National U-21 finals at Dublin’s National Stadium.

FORMER child star Mackenzie Phillips said she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, leader of the 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas John Phillips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine.

BIG changes are predicted in European Union farm policy, the Agricultural Science Association conference was told in Dublin yesterday.

Thousands packed the streets of Omagh today on the 10th anniversary of the conflict’s bloodiest day.

US-based New Zealander Grant Waite continued his good relationship with Canadian courses when he held the lead after the first round of the Canadian Open.

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A baby died in a tragic accident when he hanged himself by his bib while playing in a cot, an inquest heard today.