THE ability to travel overseas on generally recognised and accepted documents is a benefit which seems to have been with us forever. It has been the engine of international tourism and all the attendant industries and businesses which depend upon it and grow from its fruits.

Royal County Down has a habit of punishing aggression but big hitting Douglas man Peter O’Keeffe kept his love of attack in check to open with a fine 70 in the Flogas Irish Amateur Open in idyllic conditions at the firm and fast Newcastle links.

Martin O’Neill will plan for Ireland’s crucial World Cup qualifier with Wales without defender Shane Duffy as the Brighton star undergoes a foot operation today.

Millwall produced the shock of the day.

It won’t be easy, but Munster A head coach Peter Malone believes his side have a fighting chance of getting through to the knock-out stages of the B&I Cup.

The brother of three men who were given substantial jail sentences for sexually exploiting teenage girls in the Yorkshire town of Rotherham has been sent to prison for 19 years.

A High Court judge is set to analyse evidence at a trial after social services staff asked for help protecting a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited by four men.

Wes Hoolahan was among the goals for Norwich.

Two Rotherham Labour MPs have each won £40,000 in their libel action against a Ukip politician about remarks he made about the town's child sexual exploitation scandal.

It may prove too little, too late but David McGoldrick served a timely reminder to Martin O’Neill after scoring his first goal since August in Ipswich’s 3-2 championship win over MK Dons on Saturday.

Anthony Pilkington’s transition from winger to striker continued to gather momentum at the weekend as his brace helped play-off hopefuls Cardiff to a 2-1 Championship win over Preston.

Arshid Hussain, the ringleader of a gang who groomed, raped, and abused teenage girls in Rotherham, has been jailed for 35 years.

A driver who murdered a love rival by mowing him down as he cycled home from work has been jailed for life.

ANY poetry-lover who encountered Ted Hughes at the Listowel Writers Week in the 1980s is unlikely to forget this Yorkshire-man’s overwhelming presence. 

Only a small fraction of more than 1,400 victims who were sexually exploited as children in Rotherham over a 16-year period have come forward for help, according to a lawyer representing survivors.

Peter Cowen’s coaching academy near Sheffield has been broken into 25 times including seven break-ins this year alone, but fortunately tapes of Graeme McDowell’s golf swing in 2010 remain secure.

Nothing was done about child sexual exploitation (CSE) in South Yorkshire, England, because the girls involved were seen as prostitutes, a police commissioner has said.

The number of victims in the Rotherham sex exploitation scandal may be even more than the 1,400 children identified in a damning report, according to the town's MP and a project which tried to tackle the problem.

Three Labour MPs are suing a Ukip MEP over “sickening” allegations that they knew about child abuse in Rotherham.

Ukip members have been urged to steer clear of using social media folllowing a series of scandals over inappropriate comments.

A report on child sexual exploitation in the North is to be published today.

Child protection systems in Britain must be reviewed following alarming evidence that organised abuse is widespread in England in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, MPs have said.

A British council at the centre of a child sexual exploitation scandal has been condemned for giving a £40,000 pay-off to an official who quit following a damning report into the events.

South Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner has stepped down from the role after weeks of pressure over the Rotherham sexual abuse scandal.

Three men have been arrested ahead of protests planned in the light of revelations about child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.

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Grooming children for sexual exploitation should carry a maximum prison term of 14 years, a new law proposed by a backbench TD demands.

Embattled South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) Shaun Wright has cancelled a planned surgery today, saying no members of the public had booked an appointment.

A former police chief has said he was completely unaware of the systematic sexual exploitation of children taking place in Rotherham during his time in charge of the force.

The Labour Party in Britain has suspended four members who held positions of authority at Rotherham Borough Council during the years in which hundreds of young people were subjected to sex abuse in the town.

A child protection campaigner has warned that the sexual exploitation of youngsters in the UK is a much wider issue than had been acknowledged.

As a society, we must challenge the myths informing our attitude to sexual violence, writes Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop

We are very quick to condemn the public gang rapes, sometimes followed by the victim’s murder, that seem routine in India.

Rotherham council’s former top officer is to be questioned by his current boss over what he knew about the town’s sex abuse scandal.

Rotherham’s former director of children’s services has issued an apology to children abused in the town and said she wished staff “could have done more” to help them.

Members of Britain’s Pakistani community reacted with outrage yesterday amid reports that officials failed to act on sex abuse cases because of concerns about racism in the northern England town of Rotherham.

South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) Shaun Wright should quit following the “devastating” report into child abuse in Rotherham, the UK's Labour Party has said.

Britain’s approach to tackling child abuse is under fresh scrutiny after a shocking report found 1,400 youngsters in a town suffered sexual exploitation in a 16-year period.

Around 1,400 children were sexually exploited in one town in England over a 16-year period, a report said today.

Cork teenager Jean O’Driscoll led the Irish challenge on the first day of the British Ladies Open Amateur Golf Championship at Ashburnham in West Wales yesterday.