Marriage referendum appeal set to go to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has received two applications for leave to appeal in the cases seeking to review the outcomes of the Marriage Equality referendum.

The Supreme Court may deal with the applications without a hearing - just dealing with written submissions.

Appeals have already been rejected by the High Court and Court of Appeal.

The three judge Court of Appeal rejected the separate claims of Co Clare electrician Gerry Walshe and Kilkenny gardener Maurice J Lyons.

"Rosanna became the focus point for anger about quackery and nutri-babble", Dr Ciara Kelly writes

Dr Ciara Kelly on the gluten controversy that raged this week, and the culture of 'nutri-babble' it sprung from, and asks if the backlash to Rosanna Davison over her comments on gluten justified?

The one with the alternative ending - The 'Friends' finale that never aired

We all remember the final episode of 'Friends' - Monica and Chandler move out of the famous apartment with their babies.

The other friends are all there too, and they walk down the hallway with their arms around each other.

The camera pans around Monica's empty apartment and it's all over.

But one Twitter user has come up with a much less happy alternative.

User @strnks has submitted his own version of what he thinks actually happened.

Land of a thousand welcomes - Germany slams us for inviting only 600 displaced

We have been sticking to the rules on the number of asylum seekers we are accepting, but the German Chancellor is unimpressed.

Angela Merkel launched a stinging attack on Ireland's record after attending a disappointing meeting at the Balkans summit yesterday.

The Chancellor said EU countries should distribute the refugees among them according to the countries wealth, criticising the three countries who have an opt-out from a Europe quota system that would require them to take migrants, Channel 4 reported.

Her comments came shortly after leaders were informed about the discovery of an abandoned lorry in Austria with - what is now thought to be - some 70 dead migrants on board.

Polish officials think they might have found the Nazi 'gold train'

Polish officials say they have likely located the rumoured missing Nazi gold train, buried in south-western Poland since World War Two.

Two men, a Pole and a German, recently sparked speculation of the existence of a long lost train filled with Nazi gold and treasure being buried underground when they claimed to have discovered the train which has been a part of local legend since the end of the war. The train was long said to have disappeared as the Nazis fled the advancing Russian army in the spring of 1945, but disappeared. Polish security services of the Communist era looked for the train but never found it.