Three men charged in connection with an arms seizure in Dublin have been remanded in custody.

An environmental engineer has been spared a jail sentence for assaulting a solicitor with an umbrella after they bumped into each other on a rainy evening in Dublin.

A Kildare printer was “working with the IRA” while running a sophisticated counterfeit banknote operation a court has heard.

A judge has ruled the dark tinted windows on rugby player Cian Healy’s Land Rover were unsafe.

A care assistant who stole almost €1,000 from his intellectually disabled clients has received a two year suspended sentence.

A solicitor acting for a man charged in relation to a petrol bomb attack on a house in Waterford has asked the courts not to disclose his client’s new address.

A Wicklow accountant who ran over a trainee nurse with his Jeep in Dublin City Centre has received an 18-month suspended sentence and a four-year driving ban.

THE majority of TDs questioned for an Irish Examiner survey said they never sought nor had penalty points cancelled from their driving records.

A two-year-old girl who suffered post traumatic stress after a bicycle crashed to the ground in front of her in a toy shop has been awarded €10,000 damages.

MOST Kerry eyes will be focused on Páirc Uí Chaoimh tonight but in a not insignificant corner of the Kingdom, Tralee Dynamos are gearing up for the biggest game in their history.

The Government has confirmed that €42m has already been spent on the clean-up operation at the site of the former Irish Steel plant in Haulbowline.

GARDAÍ are to be called in to track down a “rogue trader” who has the potential to poison public drinking water supplies and wipe out fish life in rivers.

MANY intellectually disabled persons in State-funded residential care are being charged excessive fees, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

RETIRED High Court Judge Fergus Flood last night pleaded with the Government to scrap the Disability Bill, which is due to complete all stages through the Dáil today.

CORK’S Fort Mitchel prison closed yesterday and the last 13 prisoners held there were transferred to Limerick Prison.

FOUR Cork TDs from different political parties have joined forces in an effort to prevent the closure of Fort Mitchell Prison on Spike Island.

THE GOVERNMENT is failing to properly address bullying in schools, a leading expert told the Oireachtas yesterday.

MINISTER for Education Noel Dempsey yesterday defended his track record on special needs education as parents protested about cutbacks.