Twenty-one students at Athlone Institute of Technology, who had been told last month that their degree programme in audiology had been cancelled, will be able to complete the course.

X Factor judge Louis Walsh is seeking access to documents to support his claim The Sun newspaper allegedly offered to pay a man if he agreed to make what later turned out to be a false sexual assault accusation against the showbiz manager, the High Court heard yesterday.

A COMPANY has brought High Court proceedings arising from an alleged deal in which €30m, plus fees, was raised from about 110 Irish and British investors in 2006 and 2007 for purchase of a block of apartments in Shanghai, China.