Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale is on view all weekend, writes Des O’Sullivan

Gareth Reid has won a career-enhancing commission to paint chat show host Graham Norton, with the end product to hang in the National Gallery of Ireland.

A former politician has avoided jail after pleading guilty to a reign of terror against his former partner and their children.

Plans to release two former Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry suspects early from prison in England after they were jailed for a racist attack on a black police officer were strongly criticised today.

Two former suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation were today found guilty of carrying out a racist attack on an off-duty black police officer just half a mile from where the black teenager was killed.