Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has insisted she is 100% certain that no money from the Provisional IRA or linked criminality has been used to fund her party.

A special cross-border force should be set up to tackle the smuggling of fuel, cigarettes, and alcohol, and tougher laws introduced in both jurisdictions, a British-Irish parliamentary report has recommended.

BANK of Scotland has been granted repossession of a house which was used as a cannabis growing factory after its owner secured a mortgage using fake documents and a false name.

DYLAN CREAVEN was know as ‘Hollywood’ in Limerick’s rugby and social circles because he always drank champagne.

A 71-year-old man was jailed in Dublin today for obstructing the work of the Garda Criminal Assets Bureau.