This week, the Top 8 team was on a mission to find granola with the highest protein content to sustain us until our next mealtime. We compared the amount of sugars in each, seeking 10% or less, and checked if they came from added sugar (better than oversweet sugar substitutes) or dried fruit, which also delivers fibre and iron. What else goes into what is generally perceived as a healthy breakfast cereal? We found plenty of fibre from oats, seeds, nuts, and fruit.  Good fats in nuts (except coconut, which contains saturated fats) and seeds were found in most samples too. Soya protein isolate is a source of protein in some granolas.  An online search revealed that this protein can disrupt the balance of hormones in those with thyroid problems, so check with your dietician or doctor if you are planning a feast of soya-laden granola daily.  Other websites quote...

Telefonica, which trades as O2, acknowledged and apologised to Eamon Bowen for the “significant upset, distress and injury to feelings” O2 settles £160,000 disability discrimination case with long-serving sales advisor Facebook

A house in a south Armagh beauty spot is set to be transformed into a guesthouse after councillors unanimously overturned a previous decision to refuse permission for the development. Councillors overturn Killeavy Castle Estate decision to allow guesthouse in beauty spot Facebook

THE PGA Championship at Valhalla kicked off Thursday, a major sprinkled with golf’s good and the great. Up close, inside the ropes, they look sharp and smell better, emitting an eau de confidence as they stripe it down the fairway. Centre cut. They’re the fortunate few. There are others at Valhalla battling, fighting their game, full of dread of where their lost swing and their shot confidence will take them next. Army golf. Left. Right. Left. Right.  For the ones with game on tap, the hole looks like a tar barrel. Dead aim. For the struggling, it’s about the size of the button tieing their tailored pants. From the second cut of rough, the greens look the size of a tea towel. Sport without confidence is the toughest needle to thread. In La Rochelle’s struggle to find our game before we are chewed up and spat out of the Top...

She hailed the hit BBC cop drama’s ability to tackle difficult issues with “heart and humour”. Sian Brooke praises Blue Lights for tackling Belfast’s ‘messy history’ Facebook

Summer is coming. You can feel it. The rough winds that usually shake the darling buds of May quietened last weekend and we got a glimpse of what’s to come. We supposedly even got a glimpse of the aurora borealis.  Although I have to admit, I went out at night and looked. Nothing. Astronomical delights have always seemed to escape my eyes.  I’m a big fan of all things celestial. I’d hear about solar eclipses, as a kid in Cork. I’d stay up. Nothing. I would have settled for a glimpse of the sun in those days. I’d watch them on the news, but sadly never in person.  The thick cumulous clouds of Cork, doing their job. But I digress, summer is coming.  That is the great thing about this planet, clouds or no clouds. The moment you get comfortable in the sun, a leaf falls.  Change is something we...

The operations came months before a row broke out between the Irish and British governments over the return of migrants to the UK. Irish government returned illegal migrants by train to NI months before row broke out Facebook

“In a similar vein to Michelle O’Neill, the former first minister’s strategy was to deflect criticism and blame Stormont’s cumbersome structures, rather than accept personal responsibility” Thin-skinned Baroness Foster reverts to type under gentle but pointed questioning Facebook

Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded on Wednesday in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe. The pro-Russian leader, 59, was reported to be fighting for his life after being hit in the stomach. At least four shots were fired outside a cultural centre in the town of Handlova, nearly 85 miles north east of the capital, where Mr Fico was meeting with supporters, the government said. A suspect was in custody, the country’s president said in a televised statement. Mr Fico was taken by helicopter to a hospital. The motive for the shooting was unclear. Mr Fico has long been a divisive figure in Slovakia and beyond, but his return to power last year on a pro-Russian, anti-American message led to even greater worries among fellow European Union members that he would lead his country further from...

The shocking footage appears to show a male waving a large knife before striking a man in the face, before punching a woman to the ground. Watch: Moment man is stabbed in the face during attempt to set pair alight in Downpatrick Facebook