Five members of a gang who terrorised a young family in 2013 during an aggravated burglary will be in court next month appealing the severity of the prison sentences they received.

The district court judge who witnessed a man exposing himself in front of him in court is not to be called to give evidence in the case.

Former European Elite and AIBA World Youth champion Ray Moylette believes he has a point to prove against Wexford’s Dean Walsh at the National Elite Championships at the National Stadium, Dublin.

A judge who was subjected to a man exposing himself in front of him in court demanded heightened security at future court sittings.

A lost drug shipment was suspected of sparking the appalling violence that resulted in a hard-working and loving family “losing everything”.

It was a horrific and violent attack on a young family that caused “catastrophic changes” to their lives and “shocked an entire nation”.

An eight-year-old girl told gardaí she thought her “daddy was going to die” when he was assaulted by an armed gang during an aggravated burglary in the family home, a court heard yesterday.

Irish lightweight David Oliver Joyce edged a step closer to qualifying for the Rio Olympics on Saturday and, along with Katie Taylor, scooped one of the top accolades at the Irish Amateur Boxing Association’s Awards Night in Dublin.

Four men have admitted being involved in an aggravated burglary while in possession of two guns and a machete at the rural home of a young family last year.

She has been immortalised in folklore, story and paintings. Now the legend of the famous lifeboat Mary Stanford has been recorded in song to help fund her ambitious restoration.

A "six-figure" deal that would keep a Banksy mural which targets the issue of government surveillance at its current site is nearly complete, an art dealer has claimed.

A “six-figure” deal to keep a Banksy mural which targets the issue of Government surveillance at its current site is nearly complete, an art dealer has claimed.

Three years ago John Joyce began creating a virtual world full of fun games that also help to educate children, and now Savvybear.com is getting ready to take on the world, writes Trish Dromey

New charges, including false imprisonment and possession of firearms, have been filed against seven men accused of “terrorising” a family during an aggravated burglary last year.

Six of the seven men charged with carrying out an aggravated burglary at the home of a young family last month have again been remanded in custody following their latest court appearance.

A gang who broke into the house of a couple and their three daughters last week allegedly threatened to “shoot the small kids” before fleeing the scene with cash and jewellery, a court has heard.

Seven men with addresses in north Dublin have appeared in court in connection with an aggravated burglary in Co Tipperary last Thursday when a family was “terrorised” by an armed gang.

Fear gripped an idyllic rural thatched cottage in Limerick when intruders terrorised the middle-aged woman living there, a court heard.

A Galway man wrongly convic-ted and hanged for the murder of a family of five in 1882 will be remembered next month ahead of efforts in the British Houses of Parliament to declare the conviction a miscarriage of justice.

At the recent CAP 50th anniversary event in the centre of Brussels, Macra’s Bryan Daniels and John Joyce highlighted difficulties for young people trying to enter farming in Ireland, and called for better access to land and capital, which are the most substantial barriers to entry to farming, not just in Ireland but across Europe.

Kieran O’Dowd, Sligo, has been re-elected national chairman of Macra, with Michelle O’Callaghan from Cork and Sean Finan from Roscommon taking up the roles of national secretary and national treasurer.

Joe Ward retained his title and may have ended the career of one of Irish boxing’s legends when he out-pointed Kenny Egan by a massive score of 29-10 to retain his light heavyweight title at the Elite Senior Championships fought before a full house at the National Stadium last night.

AN Ennis man lost a finger after being set upon by men with machetes while he was attending a funeral on Saturday afternoon, a senior garda told a court yesterday.

IFA president John Bryan has congratulated the FBD Young Farmer of the Year, Paul Kehoe, from Gorey, Co Wexford, and called on Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith, and Teagasc, to address the serious situation of young farmers being turned away from agricultural colleges this year.

The prestigious Young Farmer of the Year awarded has today been awarded to Paul Kehoe from Gorey in Co Wexford.

MARRY a farmer and you’ll be doing all right is what many young girls growing up in Ireland were told.

THE FBD Young Farmer of the Year who will be named next week is likely to be a well-qualified part-timer, strongly involved in IFA and Macra and the local community.

TAKE a look at the “new” map of Ireland, the image which shows we own quite a bit more of the sea floor than previously thought.

FOUR members of a winning Lotto syndicate have won their Supreme Court appeal against a previous order that another man, who was in arrears on his contributions, is entitled to a one-fifth share of their €1.57 million prize.

A young alcoholic has been jailed for five years for breaking into a Dublin house party and assaulting two men with an iron bar on October 30, 2005.

A father and daughter team showed “callous disregard” for thousands of British victims in a £35m (€45.6m) fraud scam, US authorities said.

A north Dublin man has been convicted of having cocaine worth €70,000.

A surveillance operation of a north Dublin shopping centre carpark suspected of being used for drug deals has led to the trial of two men accused of possessing cocaine valued €70,000.

A Co Monaghan man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for an assault on two gardaí almost three years ago.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

MORE is known about the surface of the moon than about life at the bottom of the world’s seas, a conference in Dublin heard yesterday.

NOT a lot of people know this, but Mount Everest is barely the size of a half-decent snooker table. Clare O’Leary discovered that for herself yesterday when she became the first Irish woman to scale the world’s highest peak.