CHINA: A farmer has been teaching his pigs to dive in a bid to alleviate their boredom.

Kiltane 2-10 Clyda Rovers 0-10

I recently travelled to Ireland with my wife, son and daughter-in-law. It had been six years since my wife had been to Ireland.

The High Court has ruled that a builder is not entitled to the €2m he claimed a landowner owed him for the work he did to secure planning permission for a €44m housing development, including long hours lobbying Dublin councillors.

POLICE were struggling yesterday to explain why a man described as a loner drove more than 50km to Arkansas’ Democratic Party headquarters and fatally shot its chairman — a close friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton — hours after getting fired from his job.

I WAS delighted to read the article by Harry McGee reviewing the criminal law in relation to the age-old rights enjoyed by accused people on trial (Irish Examiner, October 21).

POLITICAL lobbyist Frank Dunlop felt obliged to pay £15,000 to councillors who had voted in favour of rezoning his client’s property in 1992, despite the fact the rezoning motion was defeated.

Former PR consultant Frank Dunlop has told the Flood Tribunal that former Fine Gael senator Liam Cosgrave specifically requested £2,000 in return for his vote on a rezoning motion in 1992.

POLITICAL lobbyist Frank Dunlop was “under siege” from councillors demanding money in the run-up to the 1991 local elections, the Flood Tribunal heard yesterday.

A Swede, arrested as he attempted to board a London-bound Ryanair flight with a gun in his hand luggage, is to remain in custody while prosecutors investigate charges he planned to hijack the airliner.

It has been confirmed that a Muslim convert, who allegedly tried to hijack a flight from Sweden to London, did take flying lessons.