An Israeli strike hit Iran&s state broadcaster yesterday, while the head of the UN nuclear watchdog indicated extensive damage to Iran&s biggest uranium enrichment plant and Iran called on the US to force a ceasefire in the four-day-old aerial war.

There has been a surge in interest among children from non-Irish backgrounds in playing Gaelic football in the UK, according to a Carlow man whose job involves getting the sports on to the PE curriculum in British schools.

A landfill ban in Scotland could see up to 100 truckloads of waste being moved to England each day due to a lack of incinerators available to meet extra demand.

Ukraine received another 1,245 bodies of its soldiers killed in the war with Russia yesterday in the final stage of the repatriation of remains agreed at talks in Istanbul, Ukrainian officials said.