An online fraudster who duped 26 music fans out of almost €8,000 worth of non-existent concert tickets for Electric Picnic, Arianna Grande and Hugh Jackman has walked free from court.

A middle-aged man with Asperger’s Syndrome was conned by four men into paying more than €4,000 for work that was never done on his house.

There may be an element of people trafficking in the case where a 32-year-old Vietnamese woman is charged with cultivating cannabis at luxury lakeside home, Tinarana House.

Mayo will need to do something monumental to beat Dublin on Saturday but former forward John Casey says it would be in keeping with their “bat-shit crazy” season.

Kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay could be a step closer after a High Court judgement dismissing an appeal against the operation.

A 32-year-old Vietnamese woman charged with cultivating cannabis at Tinarana House told Gardaí that she was forced to do it.

A judge has told a north Clare farmer that if he hasn’t removed by tomorrow 14 ewes and their lambs from a one and a half acre field owned by his brother, he will be sending him to jail.

A 42-year-old Romanian man, labelled the ‘Beast from the East’ by a judge, is seeking to have his 15-month jail term reduced.

Former Mayo forward John Casey is praying his county beat Galway on Sunday — but isn’t sure a third straight Connacht SFC defeat to their neighbours would effectively mean the end of their championship.

A judge said yesterday that he wanted “some safe refuge” outside prison for a convicted paedophile, Joseph O’Brien.

A judge yesterday spared a convicted paedophile from spending the next four months in jail.

A 13-year-old boy at the centre of a judge’s threat to jail his parents for Christmas has the learning capacity of a six-year-old due to chronic educational neglect.

If a violent Ennis teenager is released from custody, he will attempt to physically harm the girl he defiled, a garda has told a court.

A judge has banned a 42-year-old mother of 10 from every pub in the north Clare town of Ennistymon for 12 months.

A 19-year-old Slovakian man has appeared in court charged with the dangerous driving causing the death of GAA coach Eugene McNamara.

A drunk 52-year-old antique restorer engaged “in a bad case of air rage” when disrupting a Ryanair Shannon flight last year.

How much longer can the Murphy’s wonderful cooking remain undiscovered by the rest of the country?

A man exposed his penis to a “shocked and upset” 19-year-old McDonald’s worker after ordering a double sausage breakfast meal from her.

There are questions. And then there are the leading questions, more important even than the Five Things We Learned. Here’s 40 head-scratchers in advance of today’s Croke Park shenanigans.

A Done Deal “scam artist” who duped six victims to part with €2,400, including one man to pay €160 for two fictitious Adele tickets, has been jailed for one year.

The Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) are investigating the cause of scuffles between Dublin and Mayo players prior to Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

This year’s Macroom Food Festival (Sept 23-25) sets out under the thematic heading of ‘Blás na hÁite’, which is as it should be for the lovely Cork town and its glorious hinterland, heaving with some very fine producers, farmers, and growers, many of them great favourites of The Menu. 

A recently promoted member of An Garda Síochána dived into the sea to rescue a man from a car that had driven off a pier, writes Pat Flynn.

A recently promoted member of An Garda Síochána dived into the sea to rescue a man from a car that had driven off a pier.

A judge has said that a woman who falsely claimed in an emergency ‘999’ call to gardaí that she had been raped “put on an Oscar-winning performance”.

A 45-year old mother-of-three sent a “vile” Christmas card to an 11-year old schoolgirl, writes Gordon Deegan.

A 45-year old mother-of-three sent a “vile” Christmas card to an 11-year old schoolgirl.

Clare Camogie lost €181,000 in funding for a new camogie pitch after an administrator who “lives for Clare camogie” falsified a bank document in support of a grant application for the funding.

A leading sports physiotherapist claims young Gaelic players are “institutionalised” and many don’t realise what they have sacrificed for their sport until it is too late.

Former Mayo footballer John Casey has condemned the actions of the present squad in attempting to remove joint managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly.

First shock, then disbelief, but come yesterday evening, the mood among the Mayo football public had turned sour.

While rumination on the efficacy of curses is no longer regarded as cutting edge analysis, slightly more respectable is the idea Mayo are labouring under some fatal psychological flaw that is continually preventing them from reaching the mountain top. What else explains seven successive All-Ireland defeats?

Nathan Carter is a man on a mission — his goal is to make country music cool again, one glow stick at a time, and damn anyone who tries to get in his way.

A 14-year-old boy drove a car containing his bloodied and disfigured father and a 20-month-old baby away from the scene of a frenzied machete attack.

A 60-year-old man put Irish Water meter installation workers in fear of their lives when he came out of his home armed with an air gun after he discovered his shower was not working.

A dole cheat with €98,000 in the bank received €80,410 in social welfare payments as a result of concealing his savings from the State.

If the adage “beware the ides of March” can be applied to Gaelic games, it must surely reflect the susceptibility of damaging an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during the month.

A “cunning thief” who concocted “a fairytale story” regarding the disappearance of 15 steel manhole covers yesterday escaped jail.