The family of the Galway teenager missing in London since Wednesday saw joy turn to anguish last night as a report that he had been found proved to be untrue.

The High Court has approved an €11.5m personal injuries settlement to a 10-year-old boy who suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident, the largest in Irish legal history.

THE father of missing Trevor Deely has said his unwavering faith is helping him cope with the torment of not knowing where his son is.

THE pilot of an aircraft that crashed, killing himself and a passenger, was stressed and uncomfortable about the weather while carrying out the demonstration flight for a group of businessmen, an investigation has found.

The pilot of an aircraft that crashed, killing himself and a passenger, was stressed carrying out the demonstration flight for a group of businessmen, an investigation found today.

There was one winning ticket for last night’s Lotto jackpot worth over €13m.

THE Romans put it well, Michael McDowell told the Dáil, in the wake of Charles Haughey’s death on Tuesday. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum,” he said, “which means, ‘speak only good of those who lie dead’.”

Six businesses were temporarily closed by the Food Safety Authority last month for breaching hygiene regulations.

TRANSPORT Minister Martin Cullen has ruled out any increase in the cost of driving tests in order to fund the Government’s latest plans to tackle lengthy test waiting lists.

THE number of people killed on Irish roads is almost 50 more than this time last year after a weekend which claimed six more lives.

Two witnesses have told a jury that they saw gardaí beat a school teacher friend with batons as he lay on the ground during the May Day 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration.

Transport Minister Seamus Brennan has turned the sod on a new €17m bypass road being constructed around Loughrea, Co Galway.

The pope’s ambassador, Archbishop Michael Courtney, gunned down in a hail of bullets in Burundi, was buried in his home town today.

A WOMAN has been awarded €5,000 after she complained that Aer Lingus discriminated against her due to her age when she applied for a job as an air hostess.

INDONESIA yesterday blamed the al-Qaida network for the Bali bomb explosions that killed 181 people conceding for the first time that the group was operating in the Muslim country.

AN Irish couple on holidays in Bali spent the last three days climbing a mountain, unaware of the carnage.

Irish athletics star Sonia O’Sullivan has confirmed that she will use the Great Ireland Run later this month as a warm-up for the New York Marathon in November.

Ireland supporters in Japan have said they do not agree with reports criticising the lack of atmosphere at the World Cup, being held in Asia for the first time.

Ireland supporters in Japan have said they do not agree with reports criticising the lack of atmosphere at the World Cup, being held in Asia for the first time.