Whistle-blower Julian Assange today said his life was under threat as he prepared to fight an extradition bid after being freed on bail.

Davy Fitzgerald will have to plan for Sunday's Leinster final without Aidan Nolan who has received a two-game suspension after being red carded after the full-time whistle against Kilkenny.

Don’t work with children or animals, they say. With the former, the GAA have long succeeded in defying that idiom, but in Croke Park yesterday they tried their hand with a bird of prey and, well, it didn’t go too well.

Arsene Wenger today refuted his charge from UEFA for improper conduct in the fall-out from Arsenal’s Champions League defeat to Barcelona.

A worker at Marks & Spencer in the UK who was suspended after “blowing the whistle” on plans to cut redundancy pay to staff has been sacked, it was announced today.

A NEW whistle-blowers hotline received complaints and allegations about the health service, solicitors and malpractice by employers in its first month.

GOLFERS arriving at Atlanta Athletic Club yesterday for this week’s PGA Championship were greeted with heat in the American south reaching three-digits on the heat index.

MASTERS champion Phil Mickelson last night revealed he has started treatment for a condition known as psoriatic arthritis.

TWELVE months ago, Vijay Singh controversially lost out to Tiger Woods in the battle for the 2003 PGA Tour players’ player-of-the-year award.

Department store chain House of Fraser today looked set to join the Baugur portfolio after reportedly backing a £356m (€519.2m) takeover approach.

A key player in recent takeover activity on Irish and British high streets has lined up a £1bn (€1.4bn) war chest for a major deal of its own, it was reported today.

The owner of the Principles and Warehouse fashion chains is the latest company on the shopping list of Icelandic retail group Baugur, it was reported today.

The first time Garda whistle-blower Sergeant Maurice McCabe’s concerns of serious malpractice and alleged cover-ups in the force gained public attention, former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan retired after a late-night knock on the door, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Around a thousand people have attended a peace rally at Belfast City Hall.

Mastercard and Paypal's websites appear to have come under cyber attack in protest at the handling of the WikiLeaks affair, according to Sky sources.

IS Lord Hutton a clone of Lord Widgery of Bloody Sunday notoriety or is the liberal application of whitewash to cover establishment wrongdoings a standard function of a British law lord?