A young woman has been accused of possessing a Smith & Wesson revolver and five rounds of ammunition at her home in Dublin when she was 17.

A road accident which claimed the lives of two Limerick brothers may have been caused by the sun’s glare on a roadway, an inquest heard yesterday.

DESPITE objections from the Department of Justice, the Labour Court has decided to go ahead and hear a case involving a garda at the centre of a health and safety dispute.

A Limerick man who transported cocaine and ecstasy worth an estimated €2.4m has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.