Topazes is seeking a hat-trick for trainer Michael Bell in the NetFlights.com Handicap at Haydock and it would be folly to take him on.

HURLING star John Gardiner will lead a new drive this week to combat stone attacks on buses.

A MAN whose throat was slit may have been attacked by more than one person.

TEARS welled in the eyes of workers as the owner of the Cork textiles plant destroyed by fire told them it was not going to rise from the ashes.

CORK’S famous hurling nursery, Na Piarsaigh, celebrated its 60th anniversary last Friday.

THE body of a teenager who died unexpectedly while on holiday in Crete is expected to be flown back to Ireland later this week.

EARLY risers who paid homage to the most important meal of the day — breakfast — were honoured yesterday.

GARDAÍ are searching for a vicious gang who abducted a 22-year-old man and broke his arm and leg after beating him with concrete blocks and irons bars.