A victim of two former BBC radio presenters who assaulted under-age boys during sex sessions in woodland in England has said the acts were not "every schoolboy's dream".

It’s not to everyone’s liking but the Sky Sports GAA deal has at least helped out Michael O’Regan; his neighbours around Warwick know now why he’s always carrying that curious stick.

An ex-BBC presenter has told a court he "stepped to one side" to let a young stranger engage in a public sex act with his wife because it "empowered" her.

An ex-BBC presenter who denies child sex offences in public woodland and claimed she was body-conscious posed nearly naked for a "Naughty But Nice" charity calendar, a court has heard.

Fresh arrests have been made in the Manchester bombing probe after police carried out a controlled explosion during a raid on an address in the Cheetham Hill area of the city.

The total number of arrests connected to the terror attack rose to 10 when a man was detained in the Moss Side area of Manchester in the early hours of the morning.

Police hunting the terror network behind the Manchester Arena bombing have stopped passing information to the US on the investigation as a major transatlantic row erupted over leaks of key evidence in the US, according to a report.

The lapidary line of the tubercular John Keats is almost a cliché — “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” writes Damien Enright.

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An 11-year-old boy pulled a child who later died from a water park pool in England after discovering him while "searching for his goggles", it has been claimed.

Two people have been arrested after a five-year-old boy died following an incident at a water park in the UK.

227 children lost their lives at the protestant Bethany Home. It is now two more years since we erected our memorial, and we still wait on our Government to say that they wronged those who died and those who survived.

A prolific reader, Julia didn’t start to read like a writer until she was 15, and read Jane Eyre. She took an MA in creative writing, but concentrated on poetry. It wasn’t until the end of the course that she had an idea for a novel.

The leadership of the Protestant Churches of Ireland have to finally accept their historic responsibility as their counterparts in the Catholic Church did recently in Scotland. 

Irish historians have said, for decades, that Ireland was a ‘warm place’ for Protestants. But tell that to the people who were born in, and survived, places like the notorious Protestant Bethany Home.

READERS might wonder why Shakespeare would relate the pretty plant aconitum with ‘rash gunpowder’, as he does in Henry IV Part 2. 

The decline of Protestants in the South was no accident before and after 1916.

I was one of the first people to sign up to the 1999 Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse –but then I found out Protestants were not to be included.

A man was rescued after spending an hour trapped in his car as it hung over a bridge in England.

One has only to say Tuam babies and everyone reacts across the world, yet the politicians have known about what happened in these mother and baby homes for 44 years.

The state of Ireland has to a duty of care to all citizens, regardless of religious background, and has laws in place with which to protect them. 

Galway hurling legend Tony Keady says the GAA will make another terrible mistake if they follow through on Andrew Shore’s 48-week ban.

The New One will face six rivals in the www.StanJames.com Champion Hurdle Trial at Haydock today – if the meeting survives a morning inspection.

Martina Tyrrell and her husband packed in their jobs, bought a boat and with some trepidation, sailed off into the sunset with their young family.

Hundreds of jobs are set to be axed at Rolls-Royce factories in the UK under plans by the engineering giant for a worldwide cutback, workers have been told.

Discount supermarket chain Aldi has pledged to create 35,000 new jobs in the UK as it strives for an estate of 1,000 stores by 2022.

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Cork driver Matt Griffin and his AF Corse team-mates, Briton Duncan Cameron and Italian Michele Rugolo, were out of luck in the 4 Hours of Estoril, the final round of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS).

A mass killer who shot dead five people during a one-day "orgy of terror" in 1978 has admitted possessing firearms and making an improvised explosive device.

A former Conservative supporter in the UK called Arron Banks has donated £1m to Ukip after William Hague called him a “nobody”, while a Tory veteran's son has said he will join the party.

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Clean and clever: Stokke, which launched its iconic Tripp Trapp chair in 1972, has a reputation for smart, sustainable children’s products with Scandinavian style.

Two-time major winner Rory McIlroy insists he is happy with life and is not letting anything deflect his focus away from golf as he bids to win his first Open Championship.

100-YEAR-OLD GERMAN TURNS TABLES ON TRICKSTER

WILLIAM Shakespeare was born four and a half centuries ago this year; he was baptised on April 26, 1564.

Comedian Freddie Starr will not be prosecuted after spending 18 months on bail for sex crime allegations.

Tune in tonight to see The People's Debate with Vincent Browne live on TV3 at 10pm.

Manchester United and England footballer Ashley Young has been banned from driving for six months.

December 10 and 11 were sad days for Irish democratic politics. Reference the debate on the Bethany Home survivors’ case.

Dan Skelton’s arrival to the training ranks has been little less than astonishing as Willow’s Saviour brought about his 15th and considerably most important winner in The Ladbroke at Ascot.