Dublin manager Pat Gilroy has finalised his team for Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Laois at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

ANTHONY Daly's re-appointment as Dublin senior hurling boss for another two-years was formally ratified at a county board meeting last night.

Richard Collins re-visits the Loire, a world of delicious food, castles, wine and wildlife.

Wales are hoping to make it three from three in this year's U-18 Six Nations Festival in Cork but the young Welsh players will be sternly tested by France who are on the hunt for a first win.

NO PLAQUE, no memorial. Just three wilted roses, a curled photograph and a wall scribbled with graffiti from loyal fans mark the site in Paris where Princess Diana died and the legend took over.

Veteran rocker Billy Joel roused a 5,000-strong crowd of American college graduates to their feet on Sunday when he encouraged them to follow their dreams.

The first Mardi Gras parade since Hurricane Katrina marched through the French Quarter of New Orleans pulling carts with blue tarpaulins, effigies of Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco and floats with themes such as “Give Me That Mould Time Religion".

The Railway Procurement Agency has reportedly proposed that tram services be introduced in Cork, Galway and Limerick.

Rioters defied emergency laws that took effect today as they looted and burned two superstores, set fire to a newspaper office and paralysed France’s second-largest city’s subway system with a firebomb.

Rioters shrugged off emergency laws that took effect today, as they looted and burned two superstores, set fire to a newspaper office and paralysed France’s second-largest city’s subway system with a firebomb.

More stragglers seemed willing to flee the filthy water and stench of death as increasingly insistent rescuers made what may be their last peaceful pass through swamped New Orleans before using force.

As dawn broke over the ravaged Gulf of Mexico coastline today, rescuers in boats and helicopters furiously searched for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, with fears the death toll could reach 80.

THE foreign property market has boomed in recent years, helped by the emergence of direct and cheap flights throughout Europe and beyond.

Veteran comedian Jerry Lewis has been in hospital for several weeks trying to wean himself from a steroid medication he took for a life-threatening respiratory condition, his manager said.

Veteran comedian Jerry Lewis has been in hospital for several weeks trying to wean himself from a steroid medication he took for a life-threatening respiratory condition, his manager said today.

Ten French cities, including the Riviera resort of Nice, have adopted summer curfews for children to try to protect minors and cut back on crime.

Officials in Orleans have imposed a seven-hour curfew for children under 13 years old.