The trial of four Councillors accused of accepting bribes to rezone over 100 acres of land has heard that the rezoning went against the advice of the then county manager.

POLICE believe a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster arrested last month is the most prolific serial killer in the city’s history, having raped and strangled as many as 30 older women over two decades.

POLICE hope a $500,000 (€350,000) reward will help them catch a serial killer who has claimed the lives of at least 10 women and a man in a two-part string of violence spanning more than two decades.

The extraordinary dispute between suburban neighbours was described as a very sad case that should never have come to court and the judge said today that 26-year-old Michael Troy Cremin was the cause of it getting that far.

AN offshore company under investigation by the Flood Tribunal accused Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council in 1998 of misleading its own councillors about a rezoning motion on lands it owned.