The Central Bank’s inquiry into alleged regulatory breaches at Irish Nationwide Building Society is a breach of a former director’s constitutional right to a trial by an independent judge, the High Court has heard.

Eager paparazzi are setting up camp outside a London maternity hospital - desperate for a peak at the royal baby - despite the fact that she is not due to give birth until mid-month.

Two All-Ireland winners patrol the sidelines fortomorrow’s Bord Gáis Energy Ladies NFL Division Fourfinal at O’Connor Park,Tullamore.

The former Vita Cortex workers are keeping their powder dry after meeting to discuss escalating their almost five-month dispute over redundancy payments.

Longford manager Diane O’Hora insists her players must improve considerably to tackle Limerick in the Bord Gáis Energy Ladies National Football League Division 4 final on May 5.

Siptu said it is willing to negotiate with Vita Cortex to deliver a “just settlement” for its former workers after company bosses called last night for talks to end the 12-week sit-in.

The employers’ union Ibec has accused Siptu of “a pattern of misrepresentation” of the facts of the bitter Vita Cortex dispute.

We are not giving up until you pay up — that was the defiant message from the Vita Cortex workers to their former employer last night after taking their protest to the gates of his home.

Siptu has hit back at golfer John McHenry for how he defended his father and brother-in-law’s role in the bitter Vita Cortex dispute.

TALKS aimed at ending a month-long sit-in by the Vita Cortex workers in Cork will resume on Friday after they finished last night without a resolution.

TWO senior executives of the Vita Cortex operation in Cork received severance pay in excess of the amount needed to secure agreed redundancy payments for the 32 workers engaged in a sit-in at the plant.

FIVE hundred people rallied in support for the Vita Cortex workers yesterday.

WORKERS occupying a foam packaging manufacturing plant in Cork city will receive statutory redundancy from the state’s social insurance fund — if their employer does not pay.

SIPTU general secretary Joe O’Flynn visited workers engaged in a protest sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork yesterday.

“WE’RE not giving up without a fight.”

A CORK family has bought classified advertising newspaper Buy & Sell and plans to invest substantially in its development.

WEST Cork breeder Seamus Lehane continued a marvellous season at Carbery Show in Skibbereen where he captured the Cork County yearling championship and the young horse championship.

BUFFETED by the Portlaoise breeze, the shabby red carpet leading to the entrance of the Heritage Hotel was a fitting welcome for Enda Kenny, the man who would be king.

THE decision to avoid holding the murder trial of Christopher Newman in this country is puzzling, to say the least. It needs to be explained.

WIDESPREAD criticism of the DPP and the Garda Commissioner over the decision to hold the Georgina Eager murder trial in London rather than Dublin is entirely warranted.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has defended the decision to try the killer of Georgina Eager in Britain despite her family’s distress at the ordeal.

A jealous therapist was jailed for life today for murdering his young lover in a “frenzied” knife attack.

A HOMOEOPATHIC doctor who killed his young lover used force “totally out of proportion” to any threat he faced from the woman, a court heard yesterday.

A HOMOEOPATHIC doctor accused of murdering his young lover yesterday told jurors he was not spying on her when he watched live footage of her massaging a naked man.

An alternative therapist accused of murdering his young lover in Dublin broke down in tears today as he told the jury at his trial: “My soul has gone.”

AN ambitious young woman stabbed to death by her older lover was not driven by greed, her former boyfriend told a court yesterday.

A HOMOEOPATHIC doctor accused of murdering his young lover turned up suicidal at his ex-wife’s house to hurriedly rewrite his will to his children, a court heard yesterday.

THE killer who plunged a knife 21 times into a young woman may have used his anatomical knowledge to inflict the wounds, State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy told a murder trial yesterday.

Ireland's State Pathologist is due to give evidence in London today at the trial of a man charged with killing his Irish girlfriend in Dublin more than two years ago.

HOURS before a young Irish woman was stabbed to death by her older lover, her mother had pleaded with her to run away from him.

THE trial of a British doctor charged with murdering his Irish secretary in Dublin should be held in Ireland, it was claimed yesterday.

A BRITISH medic accused of murdering a young Irish woman in Dublin goes on trial in London next week in the first inter-country prosecution of its kind.

A 60-year-old man was today charged with the murder of a woman in west Dublin, gardai said.