How parents whose children are accused of crime are dealt with must change, say senior legal practitioners.

Frank McGuinnness’s 1992 play is a remarkable feat of the imagination

A 36-year-old man is facing trial accused of sexually assaulting a woman after he allegedly put his hand under her skirt as she walked home from work in Dublin.

A 31-year-old man made a string of apologies when charged over a crime spree in Co Laois after a petrol station was raided, a woman’s life threatened, a gun fired and a van hijacked.

A Dublin glamour model is to sentenced in June for assault after she admitted she jumped on a woman and then began to bite and scratch her.

A drugs smuggler who fraudulently claimed almost €30,000 in benefits for three years when he was living in Lanzarote has been given a chance to avoid a jail sentence.

A Dublin man fraudulently claimed almost €30,000 in benefits for three years when he was living in Lanzarote, a court has heard.

AS the family and friends of another Berkeley victim — Lorcán Miller — laid him to rest yesterday, one of his friends who was on that awful balcony made one of those uplifting statements that so resonated with courage and peace that it cannot but leave a lasting, inspiring impression.

A 25-year-old glamour model is claiming she acted in self-defence when she allegedly scratched another woman’s face and bit her hand during a fight.

ENDA KENNY must pick up and phone and demand the release of Ibrahim Halawa. Call the release “extradition” if it makes it easier. Extradition to Ibrahim’s own country, which is Ireland.

At home his kids called him head-the-ball, their fondness for Seamus Heaney the father more than a match for their awe of him as artist.

Alex Ferguson leaves Manchester United in an era very different to the one in which he started the job.

A heady combination of mud and mascara, glamour, glitz, and grass filled the air at the Fairyhouse Easter Festival yesterday.

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Sarah Webb will lead workshop on penning commercial fiction at Waterford Writers Weekend, says Colette Sheridan.

Sinn Féin is hosting the first of two conferences on uniting Ireland in Dublin today.

ABOUT 3,000 book enthusiasts are set to descend on Ennis today for the fifth annual Ennis Book Club Festival.

SO how was it for you? Good, bad or indifferent? It can’t have been that bad, I guess: you’re reading this so that means you got through to the end. What am I banging on about? The first decade of the 21st century, of course. It’s hard to believe it’s in its dying days: I can still remember the hangover from what we learned to call “millennium night”. But time speeds up as we get older, I’m finding.

SMILING alongside Ireland’s most powerful office holders, a grateful but nervous Sharon Commins was praised for her courage and endurance after her 107-day ordeal in Sudan.

President Mary McAleese tonight paid tribute to the courage and strength of aid worker Sharon Commins, who suffered almost four months in captivity in war-torn Sudan.

Sinn Féin launched a global campaign to reunify Ireland today with the claim that many unionists are open to their plans.

A NATIVE Irish apple tree will be planted tomorrow on the banks of the Scariff river by Belfast author and former hostage Brian Keenan.

The funeral has taken place of former IRA army council member Brian Keenan.

The leading Belfast republican and IRA leader, Brian Keenan, has died after a long illness.

TONY BLAIR redrafted an IRA statement at the prime minister’s country residence Chequers in the presence of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in 2003, a senior aide to the former British prime minister has revealed.

THAT five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic are facing the death penalty in Libya is unacceptable.

The team to represent Ireland in the Boys Home Internationals at Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth, Scotland on August 8 - 10 has been announced today.

FORMER Government troubleshooter Phil Flynn has accused Justice Minister Michael McDowell of orchestrating a “concerted media campaign” to criminalise him.

CHAMPIONS IT Sligo face a difficult opening defence of their Datapac Sigerson Cup title with a second-round game away to Dundalk IT this afternoon (2pm).

A LIFE on the run, hiding from angry republicans, faced Denis Donaldson last night.

GRANTS totalling €65,000 were awarded by the Irish Sports Council to leading Irish golfers.

Q – Just how vast was the quantity of arms and explosives decommissioned by the IRA.

THE IRA’s commitments would have to be tested before political institutions in the North were restored, the Government said last night.

The six-man team selected by the GUI to compete in the European Amateur Boys Team Championship at Monticello Golf Club in Italy from July 5-9 is:

DARREN CLARKE had to settle for a share of second place after another disappointing round at the MCI Heritage in South Carolina.

Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four wrongfully imprisoned for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, has welcomed the British Prime Minister's apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

THREE Sinn Féin elected representatives are also members of the IRA Army Council, Justice Minister Michael McDowell has claimed.

KICKING KING made a perfect start to his season by claiming the Grade Two National Lottery Agent Champion Chase at Gowran Park yesterday.

A dramatisation of the 1998 Omagh bombings which left 29 people dead was among five films nominated for a prestigious Irish award tonight.

The nominees for two of the main categories at the Irish Film and Television Awards have been announced this evening.

Ulster scored a decisive 6-3 win over defending champions Munster to win the Boys Interprovincial Championship at Warrenpoint Golf Club today.

Teen sensation Cian McNamara produced two stunning extra time comebacks to win the Shell Ireland sponsored South of Ireland title at Lahinch.