By Rónán Mac Lochlainn

St Vincent’s booked their place in the Dublin SHC quarter-finals following an emphatic 6-21 to 0-13 victory over Parnells in Parnell Park on Saturday.

Cuala and Kilmacud Crokes advanced to the Dublin SHC final after last four victories over Crumlin and Lucan Sarsfields respectively at Parnell Park on Saturday afternoon.

A baby who is currently enduring gruelling surgery to reconnect his digestive system has benefited from a fund raised by a cancer treatment campaigner whose funeral takes place today.

A judge has refused to give a convicted killer a discounted sentence for time served in the North on a different crime.

A Dublin man who beat his best friend to death in a drunken brawl has been sentenced to seven years with the final two suspended.

A Dublin man who beat his best friend to death in a drunken brawl is to be sentenced today.

A 14-month-old twin whose rare condition prevents him from eating, drinking, crying, and swallowing is recovering in a US hospital after finally receiving the lifesaving operation his parents had been praying for.

An armed robber who carried out a “very well planned and organised” bank robbery of €700,000 has been given a 12-year sentence by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

CORK remain the only unbeaten side in Division One of the NHL after this trip to the capital but they should probably send a ‘Thank You’ card Dublin’s way after yesterday afternoon’s fifth round clash.

Dublin 1-11 Derry 0-7

DUBLIN football manager Pat Gilroy has described the decision to screen three of his side’s four NFL games live on Setanta’s subscription channel as “harsh” on the county’s supporters.

EMBATTLED Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray was last year linked to a controversial attempt by a Church body to prevent the publication of the damning Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse.

A witness in the trial of a man who was the alleged getaway driver for a gunman in a fatal shooting, has told the jury that he saw a man wearing a motorbike helmet jump into a waiting van close to the scene.

RUMOURS of Laois’ demise would appear to be slightly premature it seems, despite the last 20 minutes in Donnycarney yesterday when Sean Dempsey’s side almost let an 11-point lead slip through their fingers.

A former Department of Justice employee has been jailed for 18 months for his role in a scam where visa extensions were issued to immigrant students in return for bribes.

A robber who cut a sale assistant's hand when she tried to stop him grabbing money from the till and threatened her pregnant manager with a knife has been sentenced to six years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Department of Justice employee and a Chinese national will be sentenced in March for their role in a scam where visa extensions were issued to immigrant students in return for bribes.

GARDAÍ are “well advanced” in their investigations into the death of a young father who was assaulted just days before Christmas.

IF there is a consensus about Offaly football it is probably one of a plucky little county punching several divisions above its weight.

KILMACUD CROKES 1-10 ST. OLIVER PLUNKETTS/EOGHAN RUADH 0-13

TWO men are being questioned about the brutal gangland murder of a man in a packed betting shop.

A man dressed in a dress and wig, on trial arising out of a €700,000 armed bank robbery during which two female staff members were held captive, dramatically changed his plea on day-two of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

NO promotion to chase, no relegation to fear, no provincial championship for the guts of another two months. Neither side had much to gain or lose in south Armagh yesterday and until a dramatic last 10 minutes, it showed.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell is due to hold a meeting this morning with a Dublin man who has been on hunger strike outside the Dáil for more than two months.

A DUBLINER on hunger strike in a tent outside the Dáil yesterday vowed to call off his 53-day protest if the Justice Minister meets him.

A man who crashed a stolen car into a taxi and also rammed garda vehicles during high-speed chases has been sentenced to four years detention by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THEY did a true son of Donnycarney proud.

OFFICIALLY they queued from eight in the morning but for some, the journey to bid farewell to Charlie began a day before.

EVEN in death, Charlie maintained his renown for a certain sense of mischief, which some might even call defiance.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will deliver the graveside oration at the State funeral of Mr Haughey in Dublin on Friday.

Dozens of mourners queued today to pay their respects to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey within minutes of a book of condolence being opened in the heart of his old constituency.

Is the glass half-empty or half-full?

A High Court judge has said during a manslaughter sentencing that he has been "haunted by the conditions of the cruelly-named Fatima Mansions" during the course of the trial which was heard at the Central Criminal Court last February.

A 35-year-old Dublin man has been found not guilty of murder, but guilty of the manslaughter of a former All Ireland boxing champion turned drug-dealer and addict.

A murder trial jury was sent to a hotel tonight, after failing to reach a verdict at the Central Criminal Court.

A former All-Ireland boxing champion died "as a result of a single stab wound to the right side of the abdomen", the Central Criminal Court heard today.

THE McGowan family visit their son Robert’s grave every Sunday. Nine months after he was killed by a joyrider, the pain of his death is still too much to bear.

THE mother of 33-year-old Dublin train driver Garry Mulligan broke down in tears in court yesterday when she spoke of the pain her son still suffered as a result of his tragic swimming accident in Australia.