As a raunchy trilogy climbs the US bestseller lists, Declan Burke asks Irish writers if they’ll be spicing up their output

Cork team doctor, Con Murphy was amongst the 17 recipients of GAA President’s Awards at Croke Park last night.

Glasgow’s Celtic Connections draws performers from all over the world for 18 days of 24-hour music, says Nicki ffrench Davis

GARDAÍ have seized more than 2,000 DVDs from premises in a Cork town as part of a probe into the multi-million euro counterfeit and piracy racket.

Ireland’s black market trade in DVDs has morphed into a multi-million euro organised crime operation with half of all new films sold now coming from pirates, it was claimed today.

A Co Monaghan man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for an assault on two gardaí almost three years ago.

Civil partnerships can address most issues encountered by same-sex couples without changing the Constitution, a Government-commissioned report said last night.

THE first significant study of the country’s 200,000-strong gay and lesbian community will likely reveal its growing political and spending clout.

THE film censor has backed calls for tougher penalties to be imposed on the criminal gangs involved in DVD piracy.

SIX out of 10 DVDs, videos and PlayStation games being bought and sold in Ireland are now counterfeit, according to industry estimates.

A man described as one of the top three pirate video distributors in the country has been given an 18-month suspended sentence by Judge Joseph Mathews at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.