Manchester City fans in Limerick will get a rare treat next month when the Premier League club bring the FA Cup to a series of free underage coaching schools in the city.

A SCHOOL car park that was the scene of a horrifying accident yesterday afternoon would have been full of children returning home had they not been kept back by teachers – to say a prayer.

HUNDREDS gathered yesterday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Beslan school hostage massacre as the painful memories of one of Russia’s worst tragedies begin to fade.

A Balbriggan teenager has been given four years detention for a crime spree which included violently robbing a pensioner, breaking a girl's collarbone and a garda's nose and mugging a party of Austrian tourists.

A Balbriggan teenager will be sentenced next week for a crime spree which included violently robbing an elderly man, mugging several train commuters and breaking a girl's collarbone and a garda's nose.

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

A group of victims from the 2004 Beslan school hostage seizure today rejected the death penalty for the man alleged to be the only surviving attacker, despite prosecutors’ and many other victims’ calls for him to be executed.

AN exhibition of moving photographs taken by children held hostage during Russia’s Beslan school massacre opened yesterday.

RESIDENTS of the grief-stricken Russian school siege town of Beslan marked the end of the 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of the massacre yesterday.

ZALINA Dzandarova cradles her son Alan as he sleeps with his small face buried against her stomach - and thinks of her daughter, Alana, who she chose to leave behind.

The two bus drivers involved in an accident in which five people died in Dublin were interviewed by gardaí tonight as one of the victim’s bodies was flown home to the Ukraine.

THE draw for the first round of the Irish Junior Cup pairs cup holders Lisnagarvey II and the 2002 winners Pembroke Wanderers in what should be the match of the round.

JUDGING by Clive Woodward’s look of thunder it was just as well the Channel 7 cameraman was filming from the open door of a hovering helicopter.