Rose Martin finds an imaginative high cottage extension, one sure to become a design staple.

Madonna is setting up a new Brazilian children’s charity.

ARGENTINIAN Football Association president Julio Grondona has revealed the impending appointment of Diego Maradona as national team coach is the realisation of a long-held dream.

SEVERE restrictions on beef imports from Brazil are expected to be agreed by the European Commission as early as next week.

The last group of survivors from the Antarctic cruise ship that struck an iceberg and sank have been flown back to the South American mainland.

Backbench members of the Oireachtas spent over €500,000 on fact-finding missions to varied and exotic places on behalf of the Irish taxpayers during 2005, according to figures just released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Gardaí were tonight questioning five men after major seizures of cocaine and cash in Dublin and Cork.

The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association has called on the Government to ban imports of Brazilian beef until the South American country is free of foot-and-mouth disease.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has accused the so-called Colombia Three of travelling to the South American country "to advance terrorism".

Three Irishmen linked to the IRA and accused of training Colombian rebels told a judge they were only observing a now-defunct peace process in the South American country.

Three Irishmen linked to the IRA and accused of training Colombian rebels told a judge today were only observing a now-defunct peace process in the South American country.

Lawyers for three suspected IRA men on trial in Colombia presented two alibi witnesses to refute government claims that they travelled to the South American nation to train rebels in sophisticated bombing tactics.