It was about midway through Wednesday night’s first Group B game between Portugal and Denmark when we fell into conversation with a German journalist by the name of Matthias outside the media centre at Gdansk Arena.

Not long before eight o’clock here, Dimitrios Salpigidis upset what would have been one of the biggest parties Poland has ever seen.

Boiled sausages, cabbage, and strong beer — it’s looking like the Irish fans will fit right in Poland.

Vienna, Austria

THE FAI has said money put behind the counter for Irish supporters in a Tallinn bar on Thursday night by chief executive John Delaney was “at his own personal cost” and not taken from association funds.

A 47-year-old man is being held by British police on suspicion of two murders including that of missing woman Sian O’Callaghan.

Poland will wait until after Sunday’s state funeral for President Lech Kaczynski to decide when to hold an early election to replace him.

A two-year-old boy was hit in the face with a bottle and a woman squirted with petrol in a series of sectarian attacks on Tyrone fans returning home from their All-Ireland triumph.

A seven-year-old boy needed hospital treatment after he was hit in the face by a brick when Tyrone fans were attacked as they returned home from the All Ireland final.

Police in Co Tyrone have arrested a number of people during disturbances that erupted following the county's All-Ireland victory yesterday.

A major investigation was tonight under way into a blaze which continued to burn in the heart of one of the world’s most historic cities, causing widespread destruction running into millions of pounds.

Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson once said, is what Paris ought to be.

UK firefighters were today battling to contain a blaze which has devastated part of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town more than 12 hours since it first broke out.

MORE than 30,000 people were evacuated from historic Dresden yesterday as floodwaters in the Elbe River surged past an all-time high, closing in on cultural landmarks already waterlogged by an earlier wave of high water.

Thousands of people were evacuated from the baroque city of Dresden in eastern Germany today as floods on the Elbe River reached record levels.

German authorities evacuated thousands of people near Dresden's historic centre today as floodwaters in the Elbe River reached an all-time high, also spilling into a square close to some of the city's cultural landmarks.

Firefighters and volunteers fought back river waters today as unprecedented flooding threatened Prague's historic Old Town and killed at least 95 people across Europe.