A man has gone on trial charged with deceiving five men into transferring approximately €1.765m total into bank accounts he controlled.

A builder described by a judge as "a poor and self-serving historian with little consideration for the effects on others of his story telling" has been ordered by the High Court to complete the sale of his family home.

Anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy has started a High Court challenge against his continued detention at Mountjoy Prison where he is serving three months for contempt of court orders.

A woman with 20 theft convictions who was jailed in October for burglary got temporary release from prison and was caught within days shoplifting in Cork city.