OnePlus has a new handset in the OnePlus 3T so they wanted to make a big splash with their unboxing. So they did one in a fighter jet!

Don’t get too ansty if the bartenders at the Tír na nÓg pub in Aarhus, Denmark, appear to take their time answering the phone.

In the North, a number of roads have been closed in Lisburn, southwest of Belfast, after a suspicious device was found on waste ground.

Paul Pollock has recorded the best ever position achieved by an Irish athlete in a World Athletics Championships men’s marathon.

Bank holiday weekends generally don’t inspire the feeling that there really is “no place like home” — unless you’re headed for the Bloom festival in Phoenix Park where homage to The Wizard of Oz may take centre stage.

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Horse racing tips for selected courses in Ireland and the UK.

Silly Sea by Jack Tickle (Caterpillar Books; €10.66 HB) is a big aquatic book with a pop-up water-spouting whale, a pincer-snapping crab, a clapping seal and many more in-your-face marine creatures, each accompanied with a jaunty rhyme.

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech has ignored the pleas of Zinedine Zidane and refused to pick his fit-again captain Patrick Vieira for the World Cup qualifying play-off against Ireland on November 14.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

THE slowing housing market wiped €21 billion off the value of Irish homes last year.

DERVAL O’ROURKE will share the limelight with the stars of world athletics at the Golden League meet in Zurich next Friday night as she sets about reaping the financial rewards of the silver medal she won at the European championships in Gothenburg.

ALISTAIR CRAGG will have to do something special if he is to convert his indoor gold medal-winning performance to the outdoor track at the European championships in Gothenburg the week after next, following last night’s run at the Norwich Union Super Grand Prix in Crystal Palace where he faded to finish seventh in what was by no means a world class 1,500m.

LIAM REALE threw something of a cloud over Alistair Cragg’s European championship ambitions when he outsmarted the European indoor 3,000m champion and then held him off comfortably in the finishing straight to land the 1,500m title at the Woodies DIY national track and field championships at Morton Stadium yesterday.

IN A visit billed as a mini-showdown with Spain’s Socialist government, Pope Benedict XVI drove home the importance of the traditional family before hundreds of thousands of pilgrims yesterday, insisting that marriage must be between a man and woman.

BBC, Riverdeep, Dublin Tourism and the Revenue Commissioners are some of the companies which have been short listed for the 2005 Digital Media Awards.

US MARINES and infantry moved with surprising speed toward Baghdad yesterday, passing down roads littered with black combat boots as Saddam Hussein’s loyalists shed their uniforms and switched to tribal robes hoping to avoid capture.

40,000 music fans are expected to descend on Fairyhouse in Co Meath this weekend for the Witnness festival.

Alvaro Recoba returned with a vengeance from a year of torment and goes to the World Cup living up to his status as the world’s best-paid footballer.

Kanu is the man to drag Nigerian football away from the self-destruct button threatening to detonate their chances of success in this summer’s Far East football extravaganza.

Zinedine Zidane, the most expensive player in the history of football and the inspiration behind France’s 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 triumphs, is primed for action on the global stage once again this summer.

The world will see a very different Michael Owen when he strides onto centre stage in the Far East this summer.

Nothing can impact upon a footballer’s career quite like a sticking sobriquet. But imagine being branded ‘Glass Legs’, the moniker afforded Robert Prosinecki in his injury-ravaged Primera Liga days.

Should David Beckham lead England out to face Argentina on the greatest stage of all on June 7 the Manchester United superstar will have come full circle.

Gabriel Batistuta walked out of a love affair and into a marriage of convenience when he left Fiorentina for Roma.