Trade unionist Jack O'Connor has been selected as a Labour Party candidate in Wicklow to contest the next General Election.

Benedict Arnold (a general in the American colonial army who defected to the British for monetary reward) is a name synonymous, throughout the world, with an act of treachery.

The jury in the trial of a financial adviser accused of laundering money from the notorious Northern Bank robbery will enter its second day of deliberations today.

The jurors in the trial of a financial adviser accused of laundering money from the £26.5m (€28.2m) Northern Bank robbery were tonight told to use their common sense when deciding the case.