Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and chief executive Sean FitzPatrick has been returned for trial accused of hiding from the bank’s auditors the true value of multimillion-euro loans.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and chief executive Sean FitzPatrick is to go on trial accused of unlawfully helping to back a group of investors – including members of Sean Quinn's family – to buy shares in the financial institution in 2008.

A councillor has pleaded not guilty at Dublin District Court to assaulting Health Minister Mary Harney who was splattered with red paint at a hospital last November.

A 16--year-old boy has today admitted possessing a gun used in a shooting at a Traveller halting site, in Dublin last year.