The Supreme Court is sitting in Cork today for the first time in the history of the State.

Any new occupants of Cork’s 2 Illen Villas will have one of the city’s recently refreshed public amenities - Fitzgerald’s Park - on their back doorstep.

California is assessing the damage after a powerful earthquake struck the heart of the US state’s wine country, catching many people sound asleep.

The businessman cleared of assaulting a burglar he struck twice with his Mercedes car last night said: “I’m glad it’s all over.” He said he wouldn’t go “through this ordeal again”.

Michael Lohan plans to be in court today to support estranged daughter Lindsay.

A man was remanded in custody today in connection with the murder of a father of two.

Estranged couple Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's Atlanta, Georgia mansion has been seized and sold.

The North's most infamous courthouse could be reopened as a luxury hotel.

A LIMERICK father and his four sons are making legal history.

Kevin Barry takes a break next week from his duties on the Ballydoyle gallops to focus on the National coursing meeting in Clonmel. Colm O'Connor reports.

RAY O’DONOGHUE was in his bedroom on the morning of January 16 when his eldest son Wayne walked in. He was crying and he told his father he loved him.

ROBERT Holohan's mother and father, Majella and Mark, sat through every moment of the trial of Wayne O'Donoghue for the murder of their son.

Michael Jackson has left the Santa Maria courthouse after a jury acquitted him tonight of molesting 13-year-old cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland ranch, vindicating the pop star who insisted he was the victim of mother-and-son con artists and a prosecutor with a vendetta.

Amid heightened security, Brian Nichols returned today to the Fulton County courthouse, Atlanta, US, where he is accused of shooting dead a judge and two other people last month.

An inquest into the deaths of a Swiss couple, whose bodies were found in Lough Ree this week, has been told the two died of hypothermia.

Academy Award-winning stroke victim Kirk Douglas, who just buried his son Eric, is reportedly embroiled in an upcoming controversial traffic accident lawsuit.

NORTHERN owner Brendan Matthews was out of luck when the draw for the J. P. McManus Irish Cup was made at the Bogue Inn Tralee on Sunday night.

Alleged Hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui has appeared in court in America