It is now being claimed that 30 civilian workers could also have been exposed to potentially lethal asbestos while carrying out routine maintenance on a Naval Service ship.

Armed Naval Service teams from one of their ships boarded a sister vessel off the south coast as part of agency’s ongoing battle against drug smuggling.

FIFA are facing a dispute over the release of three players for the Olympic football tournament.

THE volatile Republican presidential race in Iowa will come down to which way an enormous chunk of undecided voters breaks in the coming days.

Gardaí in West Cork are today treating the death of a 34-year-old member of the Naval Service as a tragic accident.

MANCHESTER UNITED have dismissed claims they have ‘stolen’ teenage midfielder Paul Pogba from French club Le Havre.

The red-hot run of trainer Jean-Claude Rouget and jockey Christophe Lemaire continued as Stacelita absolutely bolted up in the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) at Chantilly today.

Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear has told French midfielder Charles N’Zogbia he is going nowhere.

Smokey Storm ran fourth in what looked a decent contest on his debut at Windsor and he should give another good account in the EBF Newhaven To Le Havre On Transmanche Ferries Maiden Stakes at Brighton.

FAIRYHOUSE tomorrow houses three cracking Grade 1’s, but we should approach with caution on the basis that they look fiercely competitive.

DRUNKEN vandals broke into a Paris museum on Sunday and punched a hole through a priceless Monet painting.

A former teacher armed with a handgun surrendered today after taking nearly two dozen people hostage in a classroom in France, police said.

FRANK LAMPARD is facing a major battle to be fit for Chelsea’s European showdown in Barcelona.

Chelsea have signed French youngster Lassana Diarra from Le Havre.

FOLLOWING Education Minister Mary Hanafin’s recent announcement of her department’s plan to build/refurbish/extend 122 schools — the bulk of them primary — we await her announcement of the next three promises on the list.

Newcastle have put the controversy over the future of Bobby Robson behind them by clinching the signing of one of the hottest properties in French football.

Wolves manager Dave Jones was today attending a tribunal as the Barclaycard Premiership club bid to obtain a work permit for Cameroon goalkeeper Carlos Kameni.

Marcus Allback scored only his second Premiership goal of the season to give Aston Villa a half-time advantage against Chelsea at Villa Park.