THE arrival of a round-the-world yacht race in Cork is expected to attract 100,000 visitors and generate €10 million in revenue for the region.

THE usual suspects were lined up in recent weeks to condemn public service unions and trot out their public versus private creation in a thinly veiled apologia for those who created our economic mess.

Paul McCartney’s estranged wife was back at the High Court in England today.

ON February 2, a national ballot of 40,000 nurses and midwives indicated a 96% vote in favour of a campaign of action in pursuance of certain priority claims, including a 35-hour week.

Northern Ireland’s Commissioner for Children made a powerful plea today for communities to reject the paramilitary torture of children.

WHEN the gates to Augusta National Golf Club open at 8am, half of the fans run to the course — the rest bolt to the gift shop.

A small plane has crashed into the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Miami.

A man has escaped following a robbery in a Building Society in Co Louth at around 11.30am this morning.