An All-Ireland winning professional road bowler got an award of zero plus costs against him yesterday arising out of a road accident where the judge said he did not believe one word of the bowler’s evidence about his injuries.

A 77-year-old retired primary school teacher was jailed yesterday for a disgraceful breach of trust where he sexually abused a 9-year-old boy eight times in the early 1990s.

A man involved in a violent disorder incident in Youghal, Co Cork, had the balance of an 18-month jail sentence suspended on condition he would stay away from a housing estate where the offence occurred.

Another victim of sexual assault by convicted paedophile Patrick Bassett came forward and complained to gardaí of what happened to him as a child after reading media coverage of his last prison sentence.

A burglar who played guitar and sang during a presidential visit to Cork prison got a sentence of three years for his latest crime yesterday.

LIKE the conclusion of the latest court case involving a disgraced former banker, by the end of Declan Lynch’s fourth novel, The Ponzi Man, you’ll be left asking, is that it?

Last week I attended the Web Summit.

Congratulations and thanks to Dr Tom Butler (Analysis, October 19) for his very informative and important article about the dire educational consequences of letting students study via electronic devices.

An 80-year-old Cork man confessed to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy at his antique shop and firearms store in the 1970s.

A jury took less than two hours to reach an unanimous not guilty verdict in a case against a man accused of getting his niece, aged 13 or 14, to pose topless for a blue movie that would make €1,000. The middle-aged accused was found not guilty of indecently assaulting his niece between April and September 2004.

A man got his niece aged 13 or 14 to pose topless in cut-up shorts for a blue movie that would make €1,000, it was claimed during a trial yesterday.

A girl aged around 10 was picked up in a car and sexually assaulted by a priest who said he was looking for directions in West Cork.

A "desperado" who stole a minibus for a highly dangerous escapade has been jailed for 18 months.

A lower-league football club is offering season tickets for as little as £10 to try to fill the terraces.

I refer to a request from John Devlin that teachers reduce holidays (Letters, April 28).

There is an old joke; ‘the three best things about being a teacher are’ ‘June, July and August’.

Your front page and editorial (Irish Examiner, April 5) regarding lack of high-speed internet in primary schools was unnecessarily alarmist ie lack of internet in primary schools ‘’could stymie a whole generation’s appetite for learning.’’

In Richard Fitzpatrick’s article (Life/Style, Jan 13) he eulogises on the joys of a smartphone, and how when his toddler is bored she can use the Baby TV app.

After the latest Growing Up In Ireland report, the media picked up on childhood obesity, but there was less mention of a more serious issue: one in five children has a speech or language problem.

The State Examinations Commission says none of the 520 students it believes were affected by a major error in one of June’s higher-level maths exams will have lost out on marks.

A hotel manager who was hoodwinked into giving inside information to a man who later stole over €27,000 from the hotel safe was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday.

Most Dublin citizens are aware the council has removed the city’s public toilets, citing the catch-all excuse of antisocial behaviour.

While the Indian embassy is rightly concerned about this terrible tragedy, the harsh criticisms from India’s media are a little less rational.

The Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald recently welcomed Retail Ireland’s initiative to only sell age–appropriate garments for the under 12s. However, most parents are far more concerned with the content children are viewing online, despite parents’ best efforts.

An elderly man has been banned from six schools near his home and ordered to notify gardaí of any plans to take a bus or train journey, because of his lewd behaviour on public transport and near schools.

WE arrive at the Ice House in Co Mayo to a welcome so warm it belies the name, and not one, but two glasses of bubbly. This, actually, is an oversight — the better half had ordered tea (of which a selection is brought) — but it’s my kind of oversight. I happily compare and contrast the white and rosé as we sit in one of the signature river-facing rooms: A great glass extension to the old Victorian house which forms a core around which the hotel’s spa and guest rooms have been added in such a way as they all face the river. The original building is built over three cellars, which give the place its name.

IT’S great news that Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has ordered more class time for learning basic literacy and numeracy.

Donegal 2-12 Tyrone 0-17

Tyrone 0-6 Derry 2-13

Donegal, Tyrone and Warwickshire claimed wins in the Lory Meagher Cup today.

A HOTEL manager gave inside information to burglars to steal over €27,000 from the hotel safe.

THE sentencing judge in the case against the two men who caused the deaths of two teenagers in Knocknaheeny last May apologised that it could not go ahead yesterday because one defence senior counsel was not present in court.

A new portrait of Robert Erskine Childers was unveiled in Leinster House today.

THE number of fatal cases of swine flu doubled in the last week to four, with women from both the east and west of the country succumbing to the virus.

Two more people have died from human swine flu in Ireland, it was revealed this afternoon.

THE question of whether people will be charged by GPs to administer the human swine flu vaccine has not yet been discussed, it emerged yesterday.

MORE than 1,800 people have been diagnosed with swine flu in the past week alone, with four being treated in intensive care units over serious concerns for their safety.

A young woman has died from swine flu in the first reported Irish death south of the border, health officials confirmed tonight.

The lack of proper information in relation to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is disconcerting in itself, but the official bungling is utterly frightening.

A Thurles man has been jailed for three years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court for an aggravated sexual assault on a prostitute in Cork city in June 2000.