Hundreds of football fans are set to march on Premier League and Football League headquarters on Thursday to demand cheaper price tickets, the Football Supporters’ Federation has announced.

Three women have been attacked with a hammer after they disturbed a man who had broken into their hotel room in the middle of the night.

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The development of a €2.5m “underground experience” in old mine shafts dotting the cliffs along the Waterford coast is the next goal of the people behind the Copper Coast Geopark following the opening of their visitor centre at the weekend.

Nick Cary says he got his fierce determination and love of technology from his dad, pirate radio legend Chris Cary, writes Siobhán Cronin

A man has been jailed for at least 24 years for murdering a woman whose body was dumped in a suitcase at Heathrow Airport.

James Corden is to run from Paris to London in aid of Sport Relief.

SPORTSMEN and women who might have been looking upon Britain’s strategic spending review as a bellwether for the much-dreaded Irish Budget on December 7 have 42 sleepless nights left.

A man was being held in Bahrain today in connection with the murder of a woman found in a suitcase at Heathrow airport.

The teenager who killed two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver, told gardaí that he had seen his co-accused carry out the stabbings.

At least three concerned citizens tried to prevent a fight minutes before two Polish mechanics were stabbed to death outside their Dublin home.

GARDAÍ are preparing for an escalation in violence linked to gangland feuds in the Crumlin-Drimnagh area of south Dublin.

Part of Park Lane in central London was closed to traffic this afternoon after reports of a suspicious vehicle.

Madonna spoke of her joy at bringing an African baby boy home to Britain and defended her adoption of him.

THE African baby at the centre of Madonna’s highly publicised adoption bid arrived in Britain yesterday to start his new and privileged life.

Madonna welcomed a tiny African boy she wants to adopt into her UK home today.

WE were waiting for the Luas and watching barges float down the Grand Canal when we heard the shouts.

Chelsea remain locked in dialogue with Lyon despite claims that the deal to take Michael Essien to Stamford Bridge has broken down.

Police today began to remove vehicles from around the wreckage of a bus blown up in Thursday’s attacks.

THERE’S a string of billboards on the wall of the Tube station on Tottenham Court Road.

Phil Waller and Tony Jones

THE first thing that hit you was the silence. One of the world’s noisiest, most vibrant cities had fallen quiet, shocked by the horror unfolding before it.

RAJ MATTOO was standing at the street corner when the number 30 bus, travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch, exploded at Tavistock Square.

Sven-Goran Eriksson was tonight given the go-ahead to continue as England coach after being cleared of any wrongdoing by the Football Association’s board.

The Connacht team to play Harlequins in the first leg of the Parker Pen Challenge Cup semi-final at The Stoop on Sunday has been announced.

ENGLAND’S World Cup heroes were hailed by the Queen, the Prime Minister and three-quarters of a million ‘close friends’ during a tumultuous victory parade through the centre of London yesterday.

CLIVE WOODWARD soaked up the astounding scenes of celebration in London’s West End with obvious enjoyment but as soon as the victory parade for England’s World Cup triumph was over the team’s guiding force was already consigning the day to the history books.

Clive Woodward soaked up the astounding scenes of celebration in London’s West End with obvious enjoyment but as soon as the victory parade for England’s World Cup triumph was over the team’s guiding force was already consigning the day to the history books.

The streets of London will be echoing to Swing Low Sweet Chariot today, as thousands of rugby fans cheer Jonny Wilkinson and his team-mates on England’s victory parade.

Frenchman’s Creek, a winner at the 2002 Cheltenham Festival, is unlikely to race this season after suffering further problems with a leg injury.

Nobody saw much of it, not least his 19 rivals, but Chauvinist was a clear-cut winner of the £100,000 (€156,000) Ladbroke Hurdle at a fog-bound Ascot today.

Concerns are growing for a 15-year-old Russian schoolgirl who has gone missing in London, police said today.

Colin McRae, favourite for the World Rally Championship until he overturned his car in the final round of the Rally of Great Britain, has served notice on new champion Richard Burns that he will be gunning for the title next year.