When he was a bright-faced 11-year-old in the close-knit community of Holywood in Northern Ireland, Rory McIlroy told the townsfolk he wanted to be the best golfer in the world one day. Sunday, he ...

A new bovine TB control strategy to be piloted in Northern Ireland risks spreading the disease rather than supressing it, scientists warn. Researchers predict that culling badgers that test positive ...

A MAN who pleaded guilty to interfering with badger setts in a nature reserve was fined ?350 yesterday. Plasterer Michael O'Dowd (45), Grange Crescent, Mullingar, pleaded guilty to two counts of ...

LARA BRADLEY THE slaughter of thousands of badgers every year is "immoral" and "not viable" according to scientists behind a Government funded study. But, despite being advised that badger culling is ...

A badger captured glancing up at a graffiti version of itself has won the British Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award for wildlife photographer of the year. The image was taken by ...