Dunnes Stores had no option but to sack a checkout assistant for selling alcohol to a 16-year-old schoolgirl who bought it on the instructions of an undercover garda, a judge has ruled.

FORMER conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf could make their first steps with new limbs as early next year.

VALENTIA and Malin Head coastguard stations have been saved from threatened closure, it was revealed last night.