A scheme to lure business people to redevelop historic city streets has been extended to Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, and Dublin.

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The Brennan brothers are back and are looking for anything from campsites to hotels that are in a need of a bit of inspiration to put them in the black.

Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife Eva, according to reports.

The former personal assistant of U2 star Adam Clayton grossly breached his trust when she siphoned €2.8m from his bank accounts, a court has heard.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate Senator David Norris claims he’s been caught in “friendly fire” between candidates in relation to the publication of earnings and expenses.

THE race for the presidency was blown wide open after front-runner David Norris bowed out under a cloud of controversy.

A bus crash in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia killed 11 people, including two children, and left 14 hurt today, a Russian news agency reported.

VIENNA is the best city in the world in which to live according to a new global survey, while Dublin ranks 26th.

WHATEVER Bath might achieve against French champions Toulouse on Sunday, sadly there is only one story in town.

IT’s NOT every day a child can say they had a ride in a “roller” belonging to a twinkletoes millionaire Michael Flatley.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin is planning to tour war-torn regions of Georgia and South Ossetia when he meets peace observers in the region, it emerged tonight.

EUROPEAN Union monitors, including four Irish personnel, began patrolling Georgian territory yesterday under a France- brokered peace deal, and Russian troops allowed some monitors into a buffer zone around South Ossetia, despite insisting earlier they would be blocked.

The US will send an extra billion dollars to Georgia to help the pro-Western former Soviet republic in the wake of Russia’s invasion, President George Bush said today.

Thousands of refugees from the Russia-Georgia fighting this month are being told by Russian soldiers that their security cannot be guaranteed if they return to their homes, a United Nations agency said today.

A US Embassy spokesman says plans have been cancelled to try to dock a military ship carrying humanitarian aid in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian forces are posted on the outskirts.

America warned Russia today not to try to redraw the map of Europe in the wake of its invasion of Georgia.

US president George Bush sent a stern warning to Russia today that it cannot lay claim to two breakaway provinces in neighbouring Georgia, a US ally, and said there was no room for debate on that point.

A TOP Russian general yesterday said Poland’s agreement to accept a US missile interceptor base exposes the former communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said that as president he would not send American military forces into the conflict in Georgia, the former Soviet republic invaded by Russia late last week.

IN 2003, somewhere in the region of 100,000 people in Ireland, and many millions more around the world, marched in protest at what they saw as the violation by the United States of the sovereignty of an independent country.

The world’s seven largest economic powers today urged Russia to accept an immediate cease-fire with Georgia.

TENS of thousands of opposition supporters rallied yesterday in the Georgian capital to protest what they denounced as massive vote fraud that helped US-allied Mikhail Saakashvili win a second presidential term.

Russia’s top military officer today accused Georgia of fabricating a report of a Russian missile attack, as Moscow and its small Westward-looking neighbour continued angry bickering over an incident that heightened bilateral tensions.

An agent for the US FBI said today that a grenade found near the podium in the Georgian capital where US President George Bush gave a speech last week had been thrown and was live but apparently failed to explode due to a malfunction.

A distraught man, who had been told erroneously that a plane on which a relative was flying had crashed, stormed into the Turkish Airlines office in the Georgian capital today and attacked its manager.

A special European Union envoy was travelling to Tblisi today to encourage all sides in the protests in the Georgian capital to abstain from violence, the Italian foreign ministry said.

Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr has slammed the decision to make Georgia play a match behind closed doors following the knife-throwing incident when the two teams met in Tbilisi last month.

THE FAI have made special plans to fly Robbie Keane to Tbilisi today if he decides to play against Georgia tomorrow in the European Championship qualifying tie.

ROOMS with a cityscape view add extra character to a Georgian home on the northside of Cork city.

A number of men were today understood to have been arrested in Georgia in connection with the kidnapping of British businessman Peter Shaw.

US troops have launched operations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to train local forces in anti-terrorism tactics.