A man who accepted €25 to give a lift to five people who mistakenly thought he was a taxi driver could face a fine of up to €5,000.

A Latvian woman living in Limerick married a Pakistani man — despite being already married, a court heard yesterday.

A mother of six was fined €100 at Limerick Circuit Court after she admitted marrying a man while still married to her first husband, writes David Raleigh

The Pakistani army's top medical officer was killed in a suicide bombing in the garrison city of Rawalpindi today.

The father of a man arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of links to Al Qaida terrorists today threatened to go on hunger strike unless his son was released.