A MRI scanner being partly financed through hundreds of thousands of euro raised by the public is still lying idle more than two years later.

Food producers in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, are to launch a chef training programme on foot of winning the inaugural Kilkenny Leader Partnership ‘Town of Food’ competition.

A TOTAL of 2-6 from Ryan Murray and Kevin Quinn enabled Antrim to get their Ulster MFC off to a flying start in Ballybofey yesterday.

A young man who bit off a portion of another man’s ear during a fight and then put it “in his jocks” in panic when gardaí arrived will be sentenced in July at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of a Special Branch officer accused of leaking confidential information today retired to consider its verdict.