Singer Dolores O’Riordan is receiving ongoing medical treatment, a solicitor told a district court where she faces charges relating to an alleged air-rage incident at Shannon Airport last year.

Concerns about slowing global growth and the threat of rising tensions between Russia and the West have pushed US stocks lower.

Hard-pressed taxpayers and mortgage-holders have “had it up to their necks” as far as free legal aid is concerned, Limerick County Council heard yesterday.