DO you know Ballydehob? It’s a beautiful village, way down in the south west of our country.

On the 17th anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War, Muslims in Bosnia are heading to Srebrenica to attend a funeral for 520 newly identified victims.

Twenty years after Ratko Mladic’s forces began raining artillery fire on Sarajevo, the former Serb general looked down again on the Bosnian capital’s main square from a giant screen showing the start of his genocide trial live from The Hague.

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

THIS is the time of the year when your Kerry friends, many of them beloved cousins, sidle up to your weak shoulder, head bowed but eyes cross-haired on everything that moves, feet flicking at some imagined football.

HE WAS accused of masterminding massacres that the United Nations war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history”.

HIDING behind a long white beard and glasses, Europe’s most wanted man Radovan Karadzic was living a new life, practicing alternative medicine, when he was finally arrested.

Hiding behind a long white beard and glasses, Europe’s most wanted man Radovan Karadzic was living a new life practising alternative medicine when he was finally arrested.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the alleged architect of war crimes including Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War, was in custody today after more than a decade on the run.

RECENT surveys have shown that most drivers regularly break speed limits. A major cause of this is inappropriate and illogical speed limits.

Nato today welcomed the plea by the wife of fugitive Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic for her husband to surrender, saying such a move would benefit his family, Bosnia and the whole region.

The wife of fugitive Radovan Karadzic today appealed to her husband to surrender to the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal “for the sake of the family”.

NATO troops in Bosnia released the son of fugitive war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic today after questioning him about his father's whereabouts, an official said.

Serbian police have arrested at least eight men they say are shown in a video killing a group of Bosnian Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica, a top Belgrade official said today.

Nato troops today searched the home of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic and questioned his family about the former Bosnian Serb leader’s whereabouts.

Police and spies have practically taken over the house of Bosnia’s most wanted war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, anxious to see whether he returns home for the funeral of his mother, a Sarajevo daily newspaper reported today.

THE National Spatial Strategy (NSS) states that “the ability of Greater Dublin and some other areas to attract large-scale inward investment is clearly associated with their perceived advantages of being significant urban areas ...

Bosnia’s top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic will never surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal, his wife said today.

Even on his birthday, NATO-led peacekeepers did not want Radovan Karadzic to forget they were still looking for him.

Radovan Karadzic, the world’s most wanted war crimes suspect, keeps evading arrest with police help, a Bosnian Serb leader said today.

BUILT by the same people who bought Charlie Haughey’s Abbeville demesne, Pembroke Wood in Passage, Co Cork, is a Manor Homes development — their first outside the Pale.

BOSNIAN Serb police yesterday raided the radio station owned by the daughter of Radovan Karadzic, the country’s most wanted war crimes suspect.

Bosnian Serb police today raided the radio station owned by the daughter of Radovan Karadzic, the country’s most wanted war crimes suspect.

BRITISH troops failed in yet another bid to capture the world’s most wanted suspected war criminal in a Bosnian raid that left a priest and his son near death yesterday.

British troops failed in yet another bid to capture the world’s most wanted suspected war criminal in a Bosnian raid that left a priest and his son near death today.

Nato troops today failed in an apparent attempt to arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic after converging on a building in Pale, the stronghold of the world’s top war crimes suspect at large, amid bursts of gunfire and an explosion.

A birthday card displaying handcuffs wrapped into a red ribbon was sent by Nato-led peacekeepers today in the form of posters and newspaper adverts to one of Bosnia’s top war crimes suspects still at large.

Nato led troops today searched a house used during during the Bosnian war by the most wanted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic in the eastern town of Pale, retrieving documents that may provide clues to his whereabouts, officials said.

Nato led peacekeepers scaled back their search for Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic today after an intense three day hunt for the fugitive leader turned up documents the alliance is examining for clues to his whereabouts.

NATO-led peacekeepers today searched the wartime Bosnian Serb stronghold of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, a spokesman said.

Nato peacekeepers have ended two days of patrols around the home of Radovan Karadzic’s daughter, suspected of helping the United Nations war crimes tribunal’s top fugitive evade justice.

Nato troops today surrounded the Bosnian home of the daughter of Radovan Karadzic, the world’s top war crimes fugitive.

THE spectacular success of the opening session of the Special Olympics at the €63m National Aquatic Centre yesterday should prove the catalyst for the completion of the ambitious Campus Ireland development, in the opinion of Liam Bohan, director of the Centre.

I WRITE being somewhat perplexed after having read an article by your political reporter Michael O’Farrell (Irish Examiner, May 9).

A raid on the home of Radovan Karadzic has uncovered evidence that the world’s most wanted war crimes fugitive is linked to illegal smuggling, Nato said today.

Nato-led troops in Bosnia raided the home of Radovan Karadzic today, apparently hunting for clues that might lead to the capture of the world’s top war crimes fugitive.