A two-year-old child suffered terror on almost a daily basis for five months while in the care of a creche exposed by RTÉ on its A Breach of Trust documentary in 2013, a judge heard yesterday.

This Thursday evening Castleknock play in their first senior football semi-final. Formed in 1998, they truly are the nouveau riche of Dublin GAA. Their story is a heartening one, their defiance to make their presence felt in west Dublin all the more impressive with the mammoth St Brigid’s for company.

A professional surfer suffered serious injuries when he was mauled by a shark off the Australian east coast.

A five-year-old girl who suffered stress and psychological abuse when she attended a creche, which figured in an RTÉ exposé about the mistreatment of children, has been awarded €17,500 compensation in the Circuit Civil Court.

A four-year-old girl, who allegedly suffered psychological injuries while attending a creche mentioned in an RTÉ expose on the mistreatment of children, has been offered a settlement of €15,000, a court has heard.

The opposition and the defensive challenge was a novel one for Dublin but the end result was familiar as the All-Ireland favourites strode to a fifth consecutive Leinster football title success at Croke Park.

Leinster SFC final

Declan Hannon and Seamus Hickey have been returned to the Limerick hurling team for tomorrow evening’s qualifier clash against Dublin.

Meath u21s 1-10 Westmeath u21s 1-08: Meath had keeper Jack Hannigan to thank for a brilliant block to deny Dylan McDermott a match-winning goal in added time in this Leinster U-21 FC tie at Páirc Tailteann.

Westmeath 0-15 Kildare 0-12

A pig farmer, who built a “monster” piggery without planning permission, has been given three months to work out a plan to prevent the development from becoming an environmental disaster.

St Mary’s College 1-10 NUI Galway 1-7

NUI Galway 0-10 Roscommon 0-09: Roscommon manager John Evans felt NUI Galway showed more resolve as the Galway students edged a tempestuous affair at Ballyforan.

Louth 1-14 Westmeath 1-9

Spring water from a source on the side of a Co Clare mountain discovered by a water diviner’s coat hangar is on its way to being sold across the Middle East.

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

Westmeath 1-07 Dublin 0-14

Mum fails to keep abreast of traffic laws

A bank robbery suspect trying to elude police searching for him in an apartment building leaped into a rubbish chute and survived a 200ft fall into the basement.

PLANS by a Cork-based firm to convert the closed Two Mile Inn hotel on the Clare-Limerick border into a nursing home are in doubt.

A BERNARD McNamara property development company recorded a loss of €425,058 last year.

A FORMER solicitor has been charged with eight offences under the Theft and Fraud Offences Act totalling almost €1 million.

ACC Bank is seeking judgment orders for about €30 million against Friends First Managed Pension Funds Ltd and two businessmen arising from a facility advanced in 2007 to buy property in Clare and to pay off another loan.

Garryowen 23 Buccaneers 9

CARLOW IT claimed the IRCU Division 1 title with a very impressive 30-17 win against Athlone IT at the CIT campus, Bishopstown yesterday evening.

ON a night you wouldn’t have put a dog out in never mind two makeshift inter-county football teams, nobody expected thrills in this rearranged O’Byrne Cup opener.

Westmeath 0-12 Dublin 1-8, Mullingar

Buccaneers 45 UCC 15

DIVISION 1B: Clontarf 25 Buccaneers 15

Buccaneers 22 Lansdowne 16

DUBLIN Port Company has reported a 6.4% year-on-year increase in total throughput for February, marking the third consecutive month of like-for-like trade improvement at the country’s biggest port.

FERRY passenger numbers through Dublin increased by 18% in 2009 and are likely to rise further in 2010, according to the Dublin Port Company.

Dublin: Enda Connellan has told the board of the Dublin Port Company of his intention to retire after 32 years with the company and 16 as chief executive.

THE cruise liner industry is expected to generate up to €50 million for the Dublin economy next year.

THE Dublin Port Company is considering lodging a proposal with Government, before the end of this year, for it to make investments in port projects in Asia.

Profits at Dublin Port rose to €26.97m in 2008, up from €21.66m the previous year despite a reduction in throughput, the company said in its annual results published today.

NOT exactly the outcome that would have been expected, certainly not from a Wexford side which contested the All-Ireland semi-final last season and whose continued participation in the GAA football championship may be in even greater doubt as a result of having to face resurgent Roscommon in Hyde Park, possibly in midweek.

SO much for early season form not counting for much in the championship. Well, it certainly held true in Croke Park yesterday when Dublin’s near-perfect display in the Leinster SFC semi-final saw them beat Westmeath by the same margin of 27 points they had inflicted on them in the last round of the League.

Dublin 4-26 Westmeath 0-11, Croke Park

THE Dublin Port Company has confirmed that it is looking at investment opportunities in ports in India and South-East Asia.

Dublin Port had its busiest 12 months ever in 2007 with further strong passenger and trade figures expected this year despite the choppy economic waters.