Two soldiers involved in a violent drink-fuelled fight have been given a chance to stay in the Defence Forces after a judge gave them non-custodial sentences.

THE campaign to free jailed Tipperary jockey Christy McGrath will be brought to the London offices of celebrated human rights solicitor Gareth Peirce today.

A man who was released from prison yesterday after 26 years behind bars insisting he was innocent of murder, should not have had a verdict returned against him at his 1976 trial because he was suffering from mental illness at the time, the Court of Appeal announced today.

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.