A man with 102 previous convictions — 29 of which were for theft — was caught boarding a train in Killarney with a €500 bicycle he had earlier taken from a cycle shop, along with two jumpers from a shop near the railway station, Killarney District Court was told.

The first thing Ann McNamara needs to know about a crime is not what has happened, but where it has happened.

THE Green Party appeared at odds with its partners in government over sweeping gangland laws allowing trials without jury which are being rushed through the Dáil before it breaks for a three-month recess.

A Cork man who orally raped an American student and then claimed he was a commanding officer in the IRA has been given a six-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.