A man was stabbed to death after he threatened to burn down the house of the man accused of his murder during a row over a €100 drug debt, a witness has told the Central Criminal Court.

The Fitzgerald family, which controls some of the best-known pubs in the country, has booked a dividend windfall of €66.45m.

USA: Authorities at Newark International Airport in New Jersey tranquilised a wolverine who was en route from Norway to an Alaskan wildlife centre after discovering the wild animal had chewed through his metal carrier.

Hundreds of people gathered across the country today to pay tribute to the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Any new occupants of Cork’s 2 Illen Villas will have one of the city’s recently refreshed public amenities - Fitzgerald’s Park - on their back doorstep.

WHEN I visited the revamped Fitzgerald Park recently, I wasn’t thinking about former Lord Mayor Edward Fitzgerald. I had only thought in passing about who the park was named for, and had never heard of the event that led to its foundation.

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Fitzgerald Park on Cork’s Mardyke is once again open fully to the public in all its floral and artistic glory, flanked by Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial Sky Garden and the restored Fr Mathew Fountain.

The historic lord mayor’s pavilion in Cork’s Fitzgerald Park is set to get a new lease of life.

An afternoon of light, sweetness and the return of the redhead from Limerick, with the latter occurrence contributing substantially to the former.

THE ballroom in Leinster House is as appropriate a place as any to receive the grandmaster of the Orange Order Edward Stevenson at noon today.

BUCKINGHAM Palace has been swamped with a record number of well-wishing letters following Queen Elizabeth II’s state visit to Ireland.

JON VENABLES fell into drug addiction and alcohol abuse as his life spiralled out of control several years after he was released from prison.

The new identity of killer Jon Venables will remain secret after his conviction for child pornography offences, a judge ruled today.

LORD Edward Fitzgerald once commented, “I confess that Leinster House does not inspire the brightest of ideas”. Was he perhaps thinking of unfair budgets, spendthrift politicians and daft weather management schemes over 220 years later?

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza is to appeal his seven-year jail sentence given to him at the UK's Old Bailey after he was convicted of a string of race hate and terror charges.

The Old Bailey jury trying Muslim cleric Abu Hamza on soliciting to murder and race hate charges was warned today not to get “sidetracked” by the weekend’s events.

The Old Bailey jury trying Muslim cleric Abu Hamza on soliciting to murder and race hate charges was sent home today after one of them fell ill.

Alleged race hate cleric Abu Hamza today revealed he kept plans of the royal military academy Sandhurst which he admitted would be “very crucial to any terrorist”.

The trial of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza on race hate allegations - including soliciting murder – is due to start at the Old Bailey today.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley’s former girlfriend Maxine Carr is applying today for an indefinite order protecting her new identity.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza could still face execution in the US where he is wanted on terrorism charges, his lawyers said today.

A 33-year-old man was tonight charged with the theft of papers detailing Maxine Carr’s release from a British Home Office civil servant’s car, Scotland Yard said.

THE English High Court yesterday maintained an injunction banning the solicitation of information about the proposed new identity and whereabouts of Maxine Carr.

Maxine Carr has been threatened with death, the High Court heard today.

Disturbing images of child pornography were watched by a man high on cocaine, who was today given a suspended 18-month jail sentence.

About 80% of Irish men are unwilling to speak to their doctors about impotence, according to the Sexual Dysfunction Information Bureau, and are running the risk of other conditions remaining undiagnosed.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

CHILD killer Mary Bell and her teenage daughter should be granted life-long anonymity because of the unique features in their case, the High Court in Britain heard yesterday.

A man who has spent 26 years in prison protesting his innocence of murder today had his conviction dramatically quashed by the Court of Appeal in the UK.

British Taliban suspect Feroz Abbasi has lost a High Court battle over the conditions of his detention by the US at Camp X-Ray.

A High Court judge is set to make a ruling on whether there should be a life-long injunction imposed to protect the new identities of the killers of toddler James Bulger once they are freed.