A mother has described to a murder trial the moment her partner was shot dead outside her home seconds after she had taken their five-week-old daughter inside.

Rory McIroy’s dilemma about who to represent in the forthcoming Olympics can be resolved in the context of his €200m deal with Nike and taxation of same.

HOW apt that on the day that Brian Cowen’s tenure surpassed John Bruton’s (so that he will not be remembered as the shortest serving Taoiseach), the IMF were called in.