A garda and property dealer has given evidence that former solicitor Thomas Byrne never passed on a €1.87m cheque which was intended to pay off a property loan.

The Waterford management have made three changes in personnel, as well as a number of positional switches, for tonight’s Electric Ireland Munster MHC semi-final play-off with Clare at Fraher Field in Dungarvan (throw-in 7pm).

British military chiefs defended plans to put missile batteries on top of apartment blocks to help protect London from a Sept 11-style attack during this Olympic Games, after appalled residents said it could make them a target.

Britain’s military has told residents of an upscale apartment development near the Olympic Park in east London it is installing a missile battery on top of a tower within their housing complex to defend the 2012 Games this summer.

THE Government may want to put water meters in every home in the country, but look at it this way: At least they don’t have plans for putting surface-to-air missiles on the roof of any of our negative equity homes.

St Aidan’s Community College, Cork claimed the Umbro FAI Schools Dr Tony O’Neill Boys’ Cup in dramatic fashion yesterday at Tallaght Stadium through Anthony McAlevey’s late winner.

Struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne was charged today with stealing more than €2m from clients in connection with the purchase of an apartment building in Dublin.

IRISH EXAMINER columnist Steven King has resigned from the newspaper following his suspension over claims that he plagiarised content.

HURLING is Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s expression of thanks for the gifts God has given him, he reveals in a frank interview.

SHANNON Development has been embarrassed into abandoning the sale of State property after it emerged it may have undervalued the land by up to €6 million.

THE Government last night blocked the controversial sale of a valuable 115-acre industrial site near the University of Limerick by Shannon Development.