Billy Slater and Miss World Australia Madeline Cowe at Cairns Cup and other top stories.

• Billy Slater and Miss World Australia Madeline Cowe at Cairns Cup

  

  THE party is continuing for more than 5000 revellers at the Brothers Cairns Cup Ladies Day this afternoon.A sea of women in fascinators, long skirts and dark prints, and their men, packed in for the annual warm up to tomorrow’s Cairns Cup race day.Melbourne Storm player Billy Slater and Tully’s Miss World Australia Madeline Cowe joined in the festivities with racegoers.Cairns Jockey Club event and marketing manager Shahnee Ricci said wine and champagne pipped beer as the drink of choice.“It must..

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• AGE is no barrier for these real estate young guns.

  

  AGE is no barrier for these real estate young guns.“Manager” is not usually a title tagged onto your name in your 20s, but Ray Murphy and Brooke Hamann are not your average 20-somethings.In the past 12 months, 24-year-old Murphy has sold 44 properties in Cairns and is now the general manager of new business and development for RE/MAX Cairns.He was also named Cairns’ Premier Young Real Estate Agent within the company but admits the industry can be tough.“We work long hours and deal with lots of d..

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• Capsized boaties accused of being “nautical nincompoops”

  

  A  VETERAN marine rescuer has branded a couple of boaties who survived 12 hours at sea after their vessel capsized, as “nautical nincompoops” for not carrying enough safety equipment.Palm Cove restaurateurs Kieran O’Connor and Dimitri Fontaine were rescued 9.5km off the coast of Port Douglas after their catamaran capsized in 2m swells near Double ­Island earlier this week.They were rescued by a passing tourist vessel after ­surviving 12 hours adrift with no food and little water.Their vessel was..

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• Philip Cairns: 'A ring of people have protected this case'

  

  Having made his name in broadcasting and become one of RTÉ’s marquee names, Gareth O’Callaghan has been commended for his bravery in recent years when speaking out about his depression. Of late, however, he has taken on something of a new public persona, agitating for justice for a boy who has been missing, presumed murdered, for 30 years: Philip Cairns. The 13-year-old was a distant relative of O’Callaghan, not that the veteran broadcaster knew of the link. “I found out our family was related..

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