Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin faces a massive legal bill of around €1m after the Supreme Court today dismissed his application for costs following his failed legal challenge.

An Oireachtas Committee investigating allegations that Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin accessed child pornography on the internet tonight began the final move to have experts examine his computer.

LOOKING unshaven and unkempt, Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad made his first appearance in a Virginia state court yesterday, a state second only to Texas in executions of adults and juveniles.