The jury in the case against a former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board who denies receiving corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company was sent to a hotel overnight as they have not yet reached a verdict.

The jury in the case against a former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board who denies receiving corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company was sent to a hotel overnight as they have not yet reached a verdict.

A former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board received corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company, it was claimed on the opening day of his trial today.

A German woman accused of having €280,000 worth of cocaine at Cork Airport confessed to the crime today.

“OF course I did, I needed a story” was Ian Bailey’s response to what he thought was a joke when a news editor told him of the rumour that he had murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier.