Would-be buyers of the equestrian centre once owned by one of Ireland’s most notorious criminals have been wished good luck should they embark on a treasure hunt.

TV3 presenter Glenda Gilson and a private Catholic school owner who refused to enrol a pregnant teenager are among 106 tax defaulters who settled with the State for a total of €19.8m.

Kieran Behan continues his remarkable rise through the sport and tomorrow competes in the floor exercise final at the European Artistic Championships.

The family of a 62-year-old operator of a Cork cleaning company, jailed for two years after admitting tax offences amounting to hundreds of thousands of euro, burst into tears at his sentencing yesterday.

From once being in a wheelchair, Kieran Behan has come a long way to become Ireland’s second ever Olympic gymnast.

A Niall Hanley header after 12 minutes proved enough to give UCD another Irish Universities Collingwood Cup title in the decider against Mary Immaculate College, Limerick at the University of Limerick yesterday.

Even now, with his Olympic dream just six months from becoming reality, the legacy of Kieran Behan’s painful and traumatic journey from life-threatening injury and illness tolife-affirming achievement is all too evident.

WHEN word of Kieran Behan’s Olympic qualification filtered through on Wednesday, you struggled, inevitably, to recall other fine Irish gymnastic landmarks.

KIERAN BEHAN has become only the second Irish gymnast in history to qualify for an Olympic Games — an astonishing achievement given he was twice told he might never walk again.

Traces of DNA linking a man to the murders of two British soldiers are at most 100 billion times smaller than a gram, a court has heard.

DNA found in a getaway car used in the shooting of two British soldiers is almost six trillion times more likely to belong to one of the alleged murderers than someone else, a court heard.

A bomb squad officer who was first to examine the car used by gunmen who killed two soldiers in the North said he did not see a latex glove tip said to be at the heart of the case.

A FORMER accountant at a cleaning company notified the Revenue Commissioners of hundreds of thousands of euro in sales which were not being disclosed and were being lodged in the owner’s personal account.

IRA blackmailers threatened to kill an alleged cigarette smuggler unless he paid them £300,000, a court heard today.

A jury was today urged to acquit a man of murdering a schoolgirl who, it was claimed, may not be dead.

The number of people killed on the North's roads this Easter today rose to four.

A former paratrooper today dismissed suggestions he shot a woman on Bloody Sunday.

Sinn Fein has labelled this morning’s arrest of a senior Republican in Co Tyrone as a stunt.