Defending champion and Irish international Maria Dunne (Skerries) has safely made it through to the semi-finals of the Clarins Leinster Ladies Golf Championships at Grange Golf Club.

A Glen Of the Downs protestor who thrust a knife into a Somalian’s mouth after insulting him racially at a Dublin night club has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An independent inquiry was ordered today into the escalation in price of a major road-building project in Co Wicklow.