A woman has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to killing her partner in Carlow two years ago.

AFTER a brave battle which lasted half her life, Cork girl Holly O’Keeffe has lost her fight against a rare but lethal form of cancer.

YOU have a failed ideology, you have the most hopeless policy that I ever heard pursued by any nitwit.”

Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly says the blade may be about to fall on Ahern.

EIGHT days after last year’s story hit the headlines that close friends had given him a financial “dig-out” in 1993, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern repaid a total of €90,867, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

No longer are rugby’s tyro talents waiting until their 20s to make a mark. Barry Coughlan looks at the explosive talents of five bright young things ready to make their marks in the Heineken Cup.