The fundraising target of €2 million has been reached by the Sean Cox fundraising campaign.

Davy Stockbrokers is actively targeting a number of further acquisition opportunities in Northern Ireland as a means of more easily entering the UK market.

Reaction in Limerick to an Irish Examiner billboard campaign flagging an in-depth look at crime figures across Ireland may have resulted from a misinterpretation of the nature of the promotion, the newspaper’s editor said yesterday.

A cold-case trial has heard that a woman accused of murdering her husband in 1987 claimed to have rowed with him a year later.