Joe Leogue A three-year-old boy who was found unconscious in a swimming pool in Spain on Monday has died.

A 52-year old man who suffered a brain injury in a single punch assault on a Dublin street has been granted permission by the High Court to reject an award of over €1million by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal.

The second series of the true crime documentary about Steven Avery is released on Netflix today, writes Georgia Humphreys.

The dying wish of Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt has finally been granted as his family scattered his ashes in Limerick to coincide with the eighth anniversary of his passing.

No, really.

Beginning in Goleen, West Cork, in 1945, and continuing in seven-year intervals up to 2015, taking in Dublin City, Amsterdam, New York City, and Maribor, perhaps the biggest disappointment about John Boyne’s new novel is how predictable and plodding it is. 

In his epic new tome that spans 70 years, John Boyne examines growing up gay in Ireland and the associated trials and tribulations. He talks to Sue Leonard

A Wisconsin prisoner featured in the Netflix series Making A Murderer made a voluntary confession and was properly convicted, a court has heard.

Netflix had quite a hit on their hands with Making a Murderer but the story isn't over yet.

1. The 5 Misfits by Beatrice Alemagna (Frances Lincoln, €16.70 HB)

A young Irish legal eagle has been selected to work on a US miscarriage of justice project which helped highlight the Steven Avery case featured in the smash Netflix series, Making a Murderer.

Two lawyers who defended Steven Avery, the man at the centre of the popular ‘Making a Murderer’ documentary series, are to appear in conversation at venues in Cork and Galway this September.

Dean Strang rose to fame off the back of the hugely popular crime docuseries - Making a Murderer - released in late December 2015, detailing the recent life of Steven Avery.

The team behind the hit Netflix series Making A Murderer have said they expected a backlash about the documentary in the media.

Steven Avery, the convicted killer who is the subject of the Netflix series, Making a Murderer, has filed a wide-ranging appeal claiming that authorities used an improper warrant and that a juror was out to get him.

Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, will not pardon a man convicted with his nephew of murder, in a case dramatised in the television documentary, Making a Murderer, despite online petitions seeking their release, his office said.

This little girl is our new hero.

USA: Police say a man sneaked into a central New Jersey home and hid under a bed in a spare room for three days before the homeowner realised what had happened.

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A Maryland woman charged with killing two of her children has told police officers she thought an exorcism was necessary to remove the presence of the devil and evil spirits.

A Roman Catholic church official who won an appeal of his landmark conviction in the priest-abuse scandal has left a Pennsylvania prison after 18 months behind bars.

Several stars have paid tribute to 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' actor James Avery after he passed away.

It has been reported that actor James Avery, who played ‘Uncle Phil’ in the television show ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’, has died.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens to cops and criminals once their stories are resolved in the traditionally violent climax to a crime flick, then The Place Beyond the Pines (15A) is for you. Ryan Gosling plays Luke, a feckless motorcycle stunt rider who travels from town to town with the carnival.

The sins of fathers are revisited upon the sons in Derek Cianfrance’s doom-laden triptych, which reunites the award-winning writer-director with his ‘Blue Valentine’ star, Ryan Gosling.

With pig-tails, pink glasses and a cute smile, this could be a picture of any five-year-old little girl. However, it is actually a little boy who is living as a girl after telling his mother he is trapped in the wrong body.

JUSTICE (18s) opens up as a straightforward revenge fantasy thriller, when high school teacher Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) is approached by a mysterious character called Simon (Guy Pearce) and offered the opportunity to have his wife’s rape avenged in lethal fashion.

Lindsay Lohan was allegedly involved in a nightclub row, it has been reported.

ANNE MICHAELS is fascinated by emigration. Daughter of a Polish father and Canadian mother, she was born in Toronto in 1958, and lives there still. But she has become increasingly aware that few of her generation live in the place where they were born.

A young man who was diagnosed with breast cancer aged just 24 is campaigning for the name of the illness to be changed.

“I SUPPOSE,” said the boss, “Now that you’ve met Pádraig Harrington you’ll be an expert on all things golf from here on out?”

OHIO executed a religious cult leader yesterday for murdering a family of five of his followers who he thought were not enthusiastic enough about his teachings.

Stunning model Rachel Hunter has spoken for the first time about her new relationship with "a lot younger" Canadian boyfriend Sean Avery.

Veteran rocker Rod Stewart is making his five-year-old split from model wife Rachel Hunter official - by formally divorcing her.

LOCKDOWN: Avery Montgomery (Richard T Jones) is a champion swimmer enjoying the simple life.

WOULDN’T YOU AGREE, trained by Christy Roche for J P McManus, produced an immaculate display of jumping to win the Joseph J Grace Memorial Beginners Chase at Tralee yesterday.

JIM DREAPER, who has his horses in fine shape, can strike again at Sligo this evening with Caimin’s Caper in the Yeats’ Country Bumper.

AUSTIN LEAHY and Helen Keohane are developing into a potent combination and they added to their gains with Dusseldorf on Monday night when combining to take the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Claiming Race at Killarney yesterday with All First.

A HUMAN shield was left brain-dead yesterday after being shot in the head