MUSIC NEWS: Fans of Bombay Bicycle Club got a nice bonus at the band’s gig in Earls Court last weekend when the Londoners were joined on stage by David Gilmour. 

A CORK charity is serving more than double the number of meals from two years ago and expects to become even busier as the recession continues.

POPE BENEDICT XVI made a New Year’s Day wish that people would work courageously for world peace, and especially for a lasting end to the Holy Land’s conflict, which he said has dragged on for too long.

THE bells of the nearby St Francis’s Church tolled solemnly as midday approached and then silence descended.