1’s 1.30 pm, in bed — and if I am on page 141 of We are Water by Wally Lamb, I’m thinking it is no thanks to my husband, who’s scampering enthusiastically across the room’s diagonal on all fours sideways, so as to make our ancient floor-joists judder and squeak in alarming fashion.

In defending water charges, a Fine Gael politician in Kilkenny declared last month: Water cannot be free.

Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick has won a major award for her expertly crafted children’s novel Hagwitch.

Already the oldest winner in European Tour history, Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez now has the chance to become the oldest major champion as well in the 142nd Open Championship.

WEST BROM manager Roy Hodgson believes Shane Long’s “attitude” will ensure he fulfils his potential at the Baggies.

FOR generations, the women of Guaribas, Brazil, would trudge more than two miles a day to a spring, wait hours in line, occasionally quarrel when the flow dropped to a trickle, and then head home balancing buckets of water on their heads for drinking, cooking and bathing.

A Dublin man has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of his father at the Central Criminal Court today.