Don’t get caught in a verbal crossfire with Dara Ó Briain unless you have the cajones for it. He will outgun you every time, as the front row discovered at the comedian’s Crowd Tickler show at the Marquee in Cork last night.

Dara O’Briain hangs out with Stephen Hawking on BBC One on Tuesday.

Dara O’Briain and Ed Byrne begin a new travel show, Dara And Ed’s Great Big Adventure, on RTÉ One on Thursday.

Dara Ó Briain took time out from tickling the funny bones of Cork audiences to tickle his own fancy in a visit to UCC campus today.

Dealing with 2m Twitter followers is a mixed blessing for Dara Ó Briain, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A Dublin drug addict has received an eight-year sentence with four suspended for a botched supermarket raid in which his accomplice was stabbed to death.

A former boxing champion who glassed a man in the face three years after he bit part of another man’s ear off has been sentenced to six years with the final two suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE head of a Vocational Education Committee (VEC) was fully backed by committee members yesterday after he revealed how it has lost €18,000 of public money on a school IT project and not €167,000 as was feared.

AN under-pressure County Cork VEC has called a special meeting to discuss the fallout from its loss of a substantial sum of money on a collapsed school computer deal.

REVELATIONS of a large debt heaped on County Cork VEC due to the collapse of a private computer company only came to light because of an anonymous tip-off to a powerful Dáil committee.

A former English Army corporal has been consigned to a desk job and an inactive life with non-stop headaches after being savagely attacked in Dublin's Temple Bar area.

A drug dealer who attempted to run over a man he wrongly believed was involved in a nightclub altercation with his girlfriend has been jailed for seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The family of the Irish Red Cross worker who was kidnapped in Ethiopia are delighted at news of his release.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy cruised into the last 16 of the Golfsure Irish Amateur Close at The European Club.

AT least one victim of drug-assisted rape or sexual abuse contacts the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) every week.

Britain's stringent cannabis laws are to be relaxed next spring under proposals announced by the British Home Secretary.