A 27-year-old former bank official who harassed Irish model Glenda Gilson and her family has been given a three month suspended sentence and ordered to stay 100 yards from the victims.

A 26-year-old man who has pleaded guilty to harassing model Glenda Gilson and her family will be sentenced in October by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

SENIOR executives at the Sunday Independent newspaper yesterday said ‘Sorry’ for publishing a false account of Liam Lawlor’s death, but were warned by a family member any apology was “too little, too late”.

The Government was urged to introduce a press complaints body tonight as a Sunday newspaper publicly apologised to the family of former TD Liam Lawlor over coverage of his death.