Donald Trump will not run as independent if he is not selected as Republican presidential candidate
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has announced he will not run as an independent - if he is not selected as the Republican party candidate for the White House.
The tycoon had previously refused to rule it out.
Mayo's 'biggest fan' returns to Croker after 12-month ban
It looks like one of Mayo's biggest fans was allowed to return to Croke Park following a 12-month ban for breaching the sideline during his county's All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry last year.
Barrett aka 'Mayo Mick' was issued a one year ban after several stewards were required to remove him from the pitch. The ban prevented him from attending any GAA games including local club games.
Over 6,000 Irish people pledge to home refugees
Over 6,000 Irish people have offered up a bed in their homes to refugees caught up in what campaigners describe as “the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War”.
Evacuation order for Japanese town lifted more than four years after Fukushima disaster
The evacuation order issued for a Japanese town near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has finally been lifted - more than four years after the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, and the resulting nuclear disaster.
The approximately 7,400 residents of Naraha were evacuated following the March 11th disaster. The town was the first of seven municipalities to receive such an order due to radioactive contamination.
Sheep survives shearing off of wool weighing 90 pounds
An animal welfare group in Australia says a sheep has survived an emergency shearing procedure that saw it shed some 90 pounds of wool.
The Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animal in Canberra has issued before and after photos of Chris the sheep.
Government to persevere with minimum alcohol pricing despite ECJ warning
The Government looks set to push ahead with plans for minimum pricing on alcohol, despite a damaging opinion from a European court.
The European Court of Justice's Advocate General says a similar Scottish policy could break free trade rules, and setting a base price would only be legal if a Government could prove no other law would deliver the same health benefits.
3D printing breathes new life into Irish Iron-Age musical instrument
The most cutting edge 3D-printer technology has been used to solve a 2,000-year-old musical mystery.
Billy Ó Foghlú, an Irish PhD student at the Australian National University of Asia Pacific, has revealed that an Iron Age artefact, which had long been presumed to be part of a spear-end, may actually have been used as a part of a mouthpiece for a musical instrument.
