A film actor who starred in the Love/Hate TV series has been jailed for four and a half years after he admitted carrying out a €50,000 armed robbery.

Love/Hate star Stephen Clinch has been served with a book of evidence, and sent forward for trial, over a €50,000 armed robbery at a hotel in Dublin City centre.

Love/Hate actor Stephen Clinch has been granted bail pending his trial over a €50,000 armed robbery at a hotel in Dublin city centre.

The Government’s competitiveness watchdog yesterday warned the bedrock of the country’s recent economic revival was under threat, on the same day Ireland’s mantle as Europe’s fastest growing economy was further cemented by "spectacular" growth figures.

The competitiveness underpinning Ireland’s economic growth — which has seen more people return to work — is under threat from a range of factors that need to be urgently addressed.

Love/Hate actor Stephen Clinch has been refused bail after he was charged with having a role in a €50,000 armed robbery at a hotel in Dublin city centre.

Peter Clinch, one-time advisor to former taoiseach, Brian Cowen, has been appointed chair of the National Competitiveness Council.

It’s just on the market and no 17 Springfort Crescent in Cork city’s Montenotte offers is a good property at a guide of €329,000, says agent Vincent Clinch.

ONLY a few years old, and again done up to a high standard by its investor owner, no 46 Monastery Terrace, on Cork’s Monastery Hill along Blarney Street, is as likely to lure an astute investor as a private owner-occupier.

A LEADING gynaecologist yesterday told the High Court if he had to choose when life begins, it is when fertilisation occurs.

A unique individual is created at the moment a human embryo is fertilised, the High Court was told today.

Life begins at fertilisation, a former chairman of the Medical Council’s ethics committee today told a landmark legal case on the status of frozen embryos.

PBC, Cork 26