A YOUNG man who received 600 stitches after he was sliced repeatedly in a vicious knife attack has praised the doctors who brought him back to life.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an application by Connemara man John “Demesne” McDonagh, aged 33, to have new evidence included as part of the appeal against his conviction for the murder and rape of schoolgirl Siobhan Hynes in 1998.

A pedestrian in his 40s has died after being struck by a van in Co Galway early this morning.

BUILT on the site of an old Malahide Co Dublin house is the new home Ravenswood, solidly Scandinavian in style, and fitted out to match our newly-found cosmopolitan domestic tastes.

A Special Branch detective today denied that anti-terrorist detectives who rammed a car carrying explosive substances were engaged in a "keystone cops" operation.