Mission accomplished. At least for one day. James Sugrue achieved what he set out to do on his maiden round at The Open Championship by not shooting himself out of it after 18 holes.

Two men and a woman remain in Garda custody in Cork this morning in connection with the discovery of two improvised explosive devices in the city.

BALLYBRACK VIEW, the villain of the peace when colliding with her Whites Cross, Cork, owner Eva Lewis after a gallop last year and breaking her leg in four places, turned heroine when winning the Oaks Trial Stake at Charleville yesterday.

A Kildare primary school has been named Ireland's most "active" after winning a nationwide sports participation competition.

MANY supermarkets are experiencing a chronic shortage of shopping baskets because shoppers too mean to buy plastic bags are stealing them, it emerged yesterday.