Inside Out *****

He’s best known as the master string-puller in Game of Thrones, but Aidan Gillen plays a likeable ex-con in his new film, writes Ed Power

Liam Adams, a brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, has lost an appeal against his convictions and sentence for raping and abusing his daughter.

USA: A water manager is facing discipline after he was caught urinating in an empty reservoir that supplies drinking water for the San Francisco Bay Area.

One of Ireland’s last surviving D-Day veterans remembered his fallen comrades yesterday as he was presented with one of France’s highest honours.

IF you’re thinking of bringing the pitter-patter of little paws into your home this Christmas, you might want to do some serious planning.

Actor Aidan Gillen has said he tried not to pass judgement on Charles Haughey when playing the controversial taoiseach in RTÉ’s upcoming mini-series, Charlie.

A novel, awareness-raising campaign had unsuspecting users of a matchmaking mobile app thinking twice about the dark side of the dating game after they chanced upon on photographs of women trafficked into the sex trade.

One of Ireland’s last surviving D-Day veterans has penned a poignant message to his fallen comrades after being forced to abandon hopes of travelling back for the 70th anniversary.

A convicted fraudster has avoided a jail term for conning over 35,000 Euro from an intellectually disabled man by forging a number of official documents.

A convicted fraudster who defrauded more than €35,000 from an intellectually disabled man by forging a number of official documents will be sentenced in May.

ACTOR Aidan Gillen played John Boy in the RTÉ crime series, Love/Hate, and will be back on our screens as Charlie Haughey, in Charlie, later this year. Gillen has selected seven of his favourite films for showings at Triskel Christchurch from Jan 17-20.

More than a third of the dogs given new homes by the DSPCA in the past year were pedigree breeds — a figure described as an “all-time high”.

POLITICS is rock ’n’ roll for the ugly, and the shucksters, bounders and bumpkins who hang about in Leinster House are a motley crew.

Littlefinger as Charlie Haughey? Nidge as Mara? How we scoffed. But we scoff no more…

Love/Hate creator Stuart Carolan says he sometimes feels like a “half-wit” for killing off a gang boss character played by Aiden Gillen in his hit TV series.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has said the safety record of his budget airline has been vindicated.

LOSING a job is a setback for most people, but for some it is an opportunity for adventure.

The firm that operated one of the best-known night-time entertainment venues in the country, the Central Park nightclub in Galway, recorded a pre-tax loss of €457,962 beforedeciding to close.

The ECB will wait until its June meeting to cut interest rates, although a move to boost SME lending could be announced at its May meeting, according to Brussels-based chief economist with ING Bank Carsten Brzeski.

Two republicans have been found liable for the Omagh bombing following a landmark civil action taken by relatives of some of the victims.

More than 30 members of a notorious Irish Traveller crime network have been arrested in eight countries following a massive Europe- wide investigation.

A highly experienced garda has been appointed head of operations at the new European cyber crime police unit.

He may have played a ruthless gangster in hit crime drama Love/Hate and a Machiavellian politician in Game of Thrones but actor Aiden Gillen says his most important role to date is pitching in to help combat homelessness in Ireland.

Eleven years ago when Philip King pitched the idea of a music event on the Dingle peninsula, he couldn’t have imagined it would be still thriving.

A judge in the civil retrial of two men accused of involvement in the Omagh bombing has warned lawyers that he will not let it be held up by endless delays.

There was chaos yesterday when a runaway bus careered through a small Donegal town ploughing into a number of cars.

Animal welfare groups have urged the Government to address a “trafficking” crisis in the sector, after 56 more pups set to be sold illegally were saved by gardaí.

A second attempt within a week to traffic a large number of puppies bred in illegal Irish puppy farms to the UK has been foiled.

Around 50 puppies bred illegally on a puppy farm in a suspected smuggling plot were destined for the UK, it has emerged.

Shadow Dancer ***

Online child abusers and fraudsters are getting more sophisticated in hiding their crimes, the country’s top cybercrime expert has warned.

Loyalist leader Mark Haddock was cleared today of the murder of paramilitary rival Tommy English 12 years ago.

A judge is today due to deliver his verdict in the murder trial of loyalist leader Mark Haddock and alleged members of his paramilitary gang.

IT took Loughgiel half an hour to come to grips with the conditions in yesterday’s rain-lashed Ulster Club SHC final against Ballycran at Casement Park, but once the Shamrocks turned on the style they demolished the Ards men.

ANNE HATHAWAY’S inability to master a Yorkshire accent for more than a few syllables at a time is the least of the problems that beset One Day (12A).

IT’S entirely apt that the buccaneers in the latest of the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise are in search of the fabled Fountain of Youth, given that this, the fourth, is being touted as something of a reboot.

The revival of Hammer Films continues at an encouraging, and warmly welcome, pace with this chillingly effective tale of love, loss … and the recently dead, set in a small Irish village that provides the film’s title.

VAN MORRISON has secured a court injunction banning the publication of a newspaper article about his private life.

Controversial reports into alleged British security force “shoot-to-kill” deaths in the North should be released to the victims’ families, the High Court ruled today.

Northern Assembly member Ian Paisley Jnr was fined £5,000 (€5,862) today for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source.

A Stormont Assembly member who defied a judge’s ruling ordering him to reveal a confidential source is today set to find out what punishment he will face.

A Stormont Assembly member who defied a judge’s ruling ordering him to reveal a confidential source should not be sent to jail because that’s exactly what he wants, a court heard today.

THE stalls did well at the final day of the AIB Ladies Irish Open in Portmarnock links yesterday as play was suspended twice – at 9.50am for 30 minutes and for a longer period at 1pm until 4.15pm – due to dense fog coming in from the coast.