US OFFICIALS knew months before September 11, 2001, that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network was planning to use aircraft to carry out a terrorist attack, a former FBI translator has alleged.

THE Taoiseach was like a bishop on the eve of announcing diocesan changes when he made a pilgrimage to the national ploughing championships at Grangeford, near Tullow, in Co Carlow yesterday.

THE European Rugby Cup confirmed yesterday it has received a formal complaint from losing finalist Biarritz about TV coverage of the Heineken Cup in Cardiff.

DERMOT WELD was in double form at Cologne in Germany, yesterday taking Listed races with Burren Rose and Society Hostess.

A GRINNING Gerhard Schroeder leapt onto a giant stage to thumping music and applause from several thousand Social Democratic (SPD) supporters.

As the city of Liverpool celebrates a sixth Champions League triumph for Jurgen Klopp's men, lifelong Liverpool fan Seán Cox sent his heartfelt congratulations to the club.

While it may not have had the same importance as recent meetings between the sides, Cork City's victory over Dundalk was lustily hailed by the home crowd.

“Life is for living... don’t over-think,” Billow Wood assert, and their uplifting message couldn’t have come at a better time.