An HGV driver had a lucky escape in the UK when his lorry careered off a motorway flyover and plunged on to the road below.

Ireland’s Graeme McDowell was well placed after a four-under-par opening round in the Ballantine’s Championship at the Pinx Golf Club.

A CONFERENCE for LEADER companies, which will be held in Furbo, Co Galway, on Thursday and Friday, will review a decade of rural development and examine what lessons need to be taken forward as the EU embarks on a major new rural programme.

A globe-trotting cat survived a six-week journey from Hong Kong to Britain inside a shipping container by lapping condensation from the walls, the RSPCA said today.