Cian O’Connor is hoping the celebrations that greeted the arrival on Wednesday of a second child, Cara Louise, to him and his wife Ruth will continue this weekend at the Global Champions Tour (GCT) final in Doha, Qatar.

Colombia's president has said he will donate more than €887,000 of his Nobel Peace Prize money to the victims of Colombia's 50-year conflict.

SCOTLAND: Comic Darren Walsh has scooped a prize after showing off the pundamentals of his craft at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Cavan and Monaghan have the highest rate of ownership of legally-held weapons in the State.

Equestrian: Lady luck is capricious, as show jumper Cameron Hanley will attest.

Irish show jumpers drove to victory across Europe at the weekend, with Jessica Kurten in the driving seat when claiming a €40,000 Subaru car in the grand prix in Odense, Copenhagen.

The manager of the Republic of Ireland Women’s Under 19 team, Dave Connell, has said that his side are "a year early" in their progress since he took over three years ago.

Beyonce was slapped on the butt by a male fan during her show in Denmark last night.

The Colombian government and the country’s biggest rebel group have reached a deal on land reform – one of their main bones of contention – after months of slow-moving peace talks in Cuba’s capital.

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez shared a passionate kiss in Norway.

Selena Gomez has "unfinished business" with Justin Bieber.

The protracted saga of the hunt for a new manager of Limerick will finally end later this week when Stuart Taylor is unveiled as the successor to Pat Scully.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will attend a ceremony today where the European Union (EU) will be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Marion Hughes kept the Irish flag flying in China on Saturday when second in the World Cup in Chengdu.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he is willing to help Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels broker a peace deal and congratulated both sides on taking steps to end the Western Hemisphere's longest-running conflict.

Colombia’s government has opened “exploratory talks” with the country’s main rebel group to try to end a stubborn 50-year-old conflict.

A “tween” squatter encampment has sprung up in Mexico City’s chaotic centre as “Beliebers” seek to be closest to the stage when teenage superstar Justin Bieber holds a free concert tonight.

Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt has escaped unharmed from a minor road accident in Jamaica, according to reports.

Justin Bieber is to play a string of unannounced European shows.

Madonna has announced her 2012 World Tour. It includes a July 24 date in Dublin's Aviva Stadium.

SIMON MADDEN, who captained Dundalk last season, has offered a glimpse of the uncertainty facing virtually every League of Ireland footballer as their union, the PFAI, yesterday released an initial list of 120 players actively seeking new clubs.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia.

CHASING waves on Inch Beach is a far cry from pioneering brain surgery in New York City but it’s a measure of the success the treatment has had on the life of 3-year-old Liam Heffernan.

SOME 46 European ministers have agreed common political goals for the long-term protection of the continent’s woodlands at the sixth Forest Europe conference in Oslo, Norway.

China blocked one of its most famous contemporary artists from taking a flight to Hong Kong today and police later raided his Beijing studio, the man’s assistant said.

The Chinese prison where Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is held has suspended visits by his family members and his wife remains under house arrest, a week after the award ceremony, a human rights group said today.

Chinese security agents launched a wide-ranging clampdown on dissidents today, hours before the award Nobel Peace Prize award to imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo.

China is awarding its own peace prize to counter the Nobel that recognised imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo.

China has set up its own peace prize and plans to award it on Thursday, the day before the Nobel Committee honours an imprisoned Chinese dissident in a move that has enraged Beijing.

Only one of about 140 Chinese activists invited by the wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has confirmed he will attend the prize ceremony in Oslo, according to an organiser of the guest list.

IT takes a lot of work and dedication to stage an event such as the Owners Pony and Young Riders Charity Show, but knowing it is appreciated makes all the difference.

Simon Cowell wants to win the Eurovision Song Contest.

Five American Muslims arrested in Pakistan tried to join al-Qaida but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, police said today.

When Ida the fossil's discovery was announced, it was called "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.

SCIENTISTS have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are believed to be among the record 205 nominations received for the 2009 Nobel peace prize.

Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe dealt with his country’s growing cholera epidemic crisis today by declaring it did not exist.

The death toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has risen sharply, the United Nations said, reporting 775 deaths and 16,141 cases of the waterborne disease in the southern African nation.

The Palestinians are ready to yield parts of the West Bank to Israel if compensated with an equal amount of Israeli territory, according to the lead Palestinian negotiator.

Announcements of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will start on October 8 with the award in medicine or physiology, the Nobel Foundation said in Sweden today.

Singer Amy Winehouse has cancelled yet another gig – this time after being hospitalised for “severe exhaustion”.

A 48-nation meeting on cluster bombs opened in Oslo, Norway, today with Austria pledging to ban the weapons and organisers saying an international treaty outlawing the munitions could be achieved by 2008.