The grandmother of a protesting inmate was lifted up in a hoist to try to talk him down from a prison roof, a court has heard.

A Wicklow man who raped his daughter while she was recovering from serious leg burns has been jailed for 13 years for abusing her and her young cousin.

A Dublin man has been jailed for seven and a half years for sexually abusing his then teenage nephew over a decade ago.

The delayed release of the banking inquiry’s final report until next year has prompted fears that any further setbacks could collapse the probe if an early general election is called.