Murder of two Newry women in Turkey has left their families in shock. Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore, mid 50s, were killed in the city of Izmir on Thursday.

Ms. Graham’s daughter and husband came back to their home town Northern Ireland on Monday and expect both bodies to arrive by the middle of this week.

Recep Cetin, Shannon’s boyfriend has been accused for the murder as her mother did not allow her 15-year-old daughter Shannon to marry a local Turkish waiter. The bodies were found in woods, and the place they were discovered was an hour drive from their holiday villa in Kusadasi.

Ireland is determined to knock down France in the upcoming world cup game in first three to four matches to be held in Dublin.

The situation is a bit different than in the year 2007, as the team is going to play a match against the team of the US being trained by Eddie O'Sullivan. They had finished second in the Six Nations, level on points with France after four victories, but with an low score difference of four and travelled to France with confidence even though their pool included the hosts and Argentina.

According to reports, over the decision which was linked with the release of seriously ill republican prisoner Brendan Lillis, a chain of criticizers conclude that the decision was a biased one because if this case would be compared with Scotland’s freeing case of the Lockerbie bomber, all the judgment jury would certainly admit that their decision has exploded Northern Ireland's power-sharing government with antagonism.

Following the unbearable global crunch, robberies have increased by manifold in countries like France and Paris. Recently, the United Kingdom’s top diplomat in the Philippines has expressed their sympathy over the graved issue of rioting.

It has been reported that the rioter are looting anything they come across. In the last couple of days there have been many beating and injuries caused by the intruders or rioters. Families are finding it difficult to survive and the presence of rioters is making it worse for them.

On Friday, the bank of Ireland has raised its interest rates over home-loan, business and credit-card customers. The bank has blamed the falling European economy for its step.

It has been reported that during the global meltdown, all the banks fell flat to face the financial challenge. At that time, Bank of Ireland was the only one which didn’t became a subject of scrutiny. However, since the global crunch the bank is running in losses.

The Bank of Ireland, Dublin-based lender, has claimed that its underlying pretax loss have reduced to a significant level touching 723 million Euros ($1 billion) in the first half , having strong influence from the declined bad loans offset rising funding costs.

The prices of office blocks, hotels as well as shopping malls have not reflected any sign of recovery and these factors together can play a role to worsen the loan quality in Ireland, claimed the Lloyds Banking Group Plc.

In a statement, the Lloyds notified that around 64% of its loans in the country is impaired, increasing from 53% at the end of 2010. Further, commercial as well as real estate prices have rolled down about 60% as compared to their peak in 2007, and anticipated a further fall.

David Norris is possibly the first gay President in the world.

In past few months, Ireland has showed that it does not select the right candidate on the basis of sexual orientation. But many people could not digest the fact and condemn the gays that support Norris’s campaign as a gay president.

But the results of the poll show that people of Ireland do not care about the sexual orientation of the president. Norris worked real hard to secure rights for gays in the country. His dedication has proved his worth to the community. He fought in the conditions in which most would back out.

Despite the good performance shown by the British Open hero Darren Clarke in the Irish Open at Killarney, Colm Moriarty and Simon Thornton- home team's hottest performers, won the heart of the nation.

Among 18,803 spectators at the Killeen Course, Thornton and Moriarty took the limelight in the first round, from the four Ireland's Grand Slam heroes- Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington, and Darren Clarke.

Sources have claimed that Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings and US coup Company -WL Ross & Co. announced that following their assets, this week, both of them plan to take to 9% ventures from the Bank of Ireland (BOI).

Both the companies were identified as a group of investors who bought a 1.1 billion euro ($1.58 billion) ventures to the bank’s savings.

Pursuing the results of a rights issue, they further guaranteed by increasing their stakes by 35%, no full control would be claimed.