Hurricane season in the Caribbean is drawing to an end and the death throes of these violent tropical storms have an effect on far away Ireland. 

A commuter train is likely to have been unmanned when it crashed into another train outside Chicago during Monday’s morning rush hour, officials said.

Punters buying tickets for a charity raffle in Co Down stand more than a fair chance of winning as organisers try to break the world record for the number of prizes on offer.

GARDAÍ from the national bureau of criminal investigation, the organised crime unit and local detectives in Drogheda, are working to try and identify the gang responsible for a tiger kidnapping which saw an An Post clerk forced to hand over up to €600,000 in cash.

Gardaí are continuing to hunt for an armed gang who kidnapped a postal worker and his family and stole up to half a million euro in Co. Louth yesterday.

AGREED procedures may not have been followed in the latest tiger kidnapping, where a gang escaped with an estimated €550,000 from a post office in Co Louth.

Two men have been arrested following a burglary and car chase in the North.

A British theatre company has planned a season of midsummer madness at outdoor festivals across Ireland this summer.

A white tiger escaped from a circus in New York and went on a half-mile stroll through the city.

YOU quoted Harvard professor and author Robert Putnam (Irish Examiner, November 18) as saying 80% of 14-year-olds in the US have TVs in their bedrooms.