Away from rugby.

On July 8, 2006 Dempsey wed his fiancee Anne-Marie Craig in Kilquade, County Wicklow. The couple now live on a tropical island off the coast of Fiji, awash with various species of exotic fish and plant eating reptiles. Dempsey recently bought the naming rights to the island and renamed it 'Swerve Paradise'. The couple spend roughly 2 and a half months of the year there, when Girvan is not playing rugby. The island has been described by 'No Frontiers' presenter Kathryn Thomas as a 'hedonist paradise' and pictures have surfaced on the internet of Girvan and his wife lying on the beach engaged in an array of sexual positions. Girvan has claimed the pictures are not real and have been photoshopped by Munster fans attempting to sabotage his glowing reputation as a model professional.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian doctors revealed Wednesday that they drip-fed an Italian tourist a steady dose of vodka over three days to save his life after he poisoned himself.

The 24-year-old man was taken to a north Queensland hospital two months ago after he swallowed a large amount of a potentially-fatal substance found in antifreeze in an apparent suicide attempt.

Doctors at Mackay Base Hospital decided the best method of saving the unconscious man's life was to reverse the effect of the poison, ethylene glycol, by giving him pharmaceutical-grade alcohol.

Dr Pascal Gelperowicz said that once the hospital's alcohol supplies ran out doctors sent out for a case of vodka and the unusual drip was set up.

"We quickly used all the available vials of 100 percent alcohol and decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a nasal-gastric tube," Gelperowicz said.

His colleague Dr Todd Fraser said the patient was given about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit.

"Fortunately for him, he was in a medically induced coma for a good portion of that," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"By the time he woke up, I think his hangover would have well and truly gone."

Although unusual, the treatment was approved by hospital officials.

"The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka," Fraser said.

The patient regained full health and was discharged from hospital after 20 days.

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Primark's cheap clothes wouldn't be so attractive if you knew the huge cost of those rock bottom prices. Andrea Thompson reports on the women who are paying the price for our pursuit of cheap fashion:

The queue of excitable young fashionistas camped outside the gigantic new Primark store in Oxford Street last week was the type of scene that used to be reserved for the Harrods' January sale.

But as our collective lust for throwaway clothes at bargain-basement prices has soared in the past five years, such hysteria is now commonplace.

But unlike Hennes, Top Shop and New Look, Primark didn't even need a celebrity-inspired collection to lure the fashion crowd through its doors. Indeed, last week, Primark officially took its place among the leading suppliers of fashion staples for UK women.

Its prestigious 70,000sq ft trading space on London's most famous shopping street has set it on the road to becoming a totally credible place to shop.

Meanwhile, the Primark PR machine, which has hitherto been silent, has gone into overdrive. Once priding itself on its lack of advertising, boasting that word-of-mouth keeps it on top of the game, Primark has launched a new charm offensive in one particular area - ethics.

With its newest store there is fresh talk of 'ethical initiatives'. It will boast a range of organic cotton tops priced at £4, which promise to be Fair Trade. It has also pledged to reduce the environmental impact of plastic bags by 25 per cent by next year.

It all sounds like a move in the right direction. But for campaigners, there is something decidedly difficult to swallow about Primark jumping on the new ethical bandwagon.

'Primark is leading the way in cut-price fashion and it is naïve to think you can buy a £12 High-Street copy of a leading catwalk item and think nobody has been exploited in the process,' says Simon McRae, senior campaigner at War On Want, a respected organisation that lobbies governments and works with leading international agencies to tackle global poverty.

He refers to the hugely popular 'Victoria Beckham' replica Gucci jacket which was an instant sell-out item across 160 stores — a snip considering Victoria's genuine article would have set you back £3,000.

The jacket was re-ordered in bulk for the Oxford Street opening, along with a range of other catwalk copies.

'Primark is the leading bargain retailer with £185million annual profit,' he adds. 'The only reason it is able to turn around catwalk trends in weeks and sell at rock-bottom prices to women in the UK is because their factory workers in Bangladesh (85 per cent of whom are also women) are required to work long hours for low pay.'

Back in December 2006, War On Want carried out a ground-breaking undercover report entitled Fashion Victims. As part of this, it visited six factories in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where 2.2 million jobs are dependent on the textile industry.

They interviewed more than 60 workers in secret about their working conditions. The outcome was horrifying. It transpired that textile workers were paid a meagre 5p an hour. The average monthly wage is just £9 per month, barely one third of the national minimum wage.

The workers, predominantly female because men work in agriculture or construction, are in an ironic twist, between 15 and 25 - the age of the vast majority of shoppers who can be spotted coming out of Primark's 162 High Street stores every Saturday.

These workers regularly spend 90 hours a week toiling in what investigators termed 'potential death traps' without a day off.

An investigation by Lifestyle can reveal that since December, when the report was produced, and Primark was told of the shocking conditions inside its factories, nothing has changed.

'Women I spoke to were working 18-20 hours a day to meet targets. Four months on, despite pu