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The police case against a veteran republican charged in connection with the notorious IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at a US college, a court has heard.

An Irish teacher who had her baby through a surrogate mother has been told she was not entitled to maternity leave by the European Court of Justice.

An Irish teacher who had a baby by a surrogate in California is suing the State and her school because she was refused maternity leave — but a legal opinion from the European Court of Justice did not offer her support.

The European Court of Justice has found that a teacher in Ireland was not discriminated against when she was denied paid leave after the birth of her child through a surrogacy arrangement.

Jay Z has dropped the hyphen from his name.

Tipperary brothers Trevor and Shane Breen were denied a one-two in the grand prix at the three-star show in Hardelot, France, yesterday.

Bob Woodward’s recent flap reveals a grotesquely swollen ego fed by 40 years of hero worship. Max Holland asks: why is this man an icon?

US President Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term in office yesterday.

SPEND an hour or two in Shane Lowry’s company and you quickly find an uncomplicated young man with a bright, positive attitude to life and one whose head won’t be turned by fame and fortune.

YOUNG rider Gerard Clarke continued his barnstorming run in the HSI Chippison Spring Tour in Barnadown, Co Wexford.

Kelly Osbourne found going to a festival sober “weird”.

Hip-hop mogul Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter has signed a deal to buy British designer Scott Langton's luxury clothing brand Artful Dodger - for $15m (€10.24m) cash.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was allegedly behind an attempted “blackmail” plot in the 1990s relating to a former junior minister and rent boys in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

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Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are struggling to cope with the pressures of raising four young children - and admit parenthood is taking its toll on their relationship.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have different ways of parenting their three children - the actress admits she's most likely to discipline the youngsters.

Angelina Jolie says she and Brad Pitt, who have three children including a newborn daughter, are planning to adopt another child.