A Polish National has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering a Romanian man who was guarding two prostitutes in a Co Cavan brothel last year.

A retired Fianna Fáil senator yesterday appeared, along with two others, at a sitting of a District Court on a charge of demanding money by menaces.

Investigations are continuing in Co. Cavan into a bank robbery which occurred in Kingscourt yesterday evening.

A MAN alleged to have used nine identities to defraud the state of more than €250,000 has offered to plead guilty to all charges to save the state money.

A DETECTIVE garda sergeant has claimed that a chief superintendent was personally biased against him in the handling of his application for higher rank.