Mary Lynch was working her taxi for just over two hours when she encountered Jerry McGrath. It was 2.15am on Monday, April 30, 2007. McGrath emerged from the nightclub in the Headford Arms Hotel in Kells, Co Meath, and asked would she take him to Virginia, Co Cavan, where his sister lived. He was from Dundrum in Tipperary, but was staying with his sister.

Two Vietnamese men have been remanded in custody, charged in relation to a drugs seizure in Co Cavan.

Animal rights activists have lashed out at Oscar winner Jamie Foxx after he recently spoke out in defence of dog fighting ring leader Michael Vick.

A Virgin Atlantic pilot accused of attempting to fly a passenger jet while under the influence of alcohol is due to appear in court in the US today.

Sitting impassively in an orange prison jump-suit, accused Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad today made a second appearance in a Virginia court.