Ms Harney is the current chancellor of UL and her term runs to 2022.

A 10-year-old girl, who suffered a fracture to her left foot when a heavy radiator fell off the wall in her school, has been awarded just over €56,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

The Dutch Embassy, rather than plead diplomatic immunity on behalf of one of its official drivers involved in a road accident in Dublin, has settled €60,000 claims on behalf of two cousins injured in the collision.

Newmarket collected the Duhallow Junior Hurling Championship trophy last Sunday after a 40-year wait.

John O’Connor is the owner of the Kenmare Bookshop, located in Shelbourne St, Kenmare, Co Kerry. It sells a range of new books.

Comparisons of teams and players across generations need to be conditional, mindful of changes in a sport and in the science of sport.

A judge has described youth justice as being at “the bottom of the criminal justice system” and lamented the lack of training for judges and lawyers.

Noel Ryan pleaded guilty to handling a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser at Woodie’s car park in Lucan, and to taking of a Ford Fiesta at Northside Shopping Centre.

The only trouble with crafting a golfing nirvana is running out of things to improve.

The pioneering Vienna model of housing is the subject of a month-long exhibition which opened yesterday in Dublin.

The head of jazz at the CIT Cork School of Music has expressed fears for the future direction of the city’s jazz festival following the sudden departure of its director.

UCC student Barry O’Sullivan may only be 20, but he has no shortage of ambition, bringing together some of the top business leaders in the country for the inaugural Executive Summit next month.

Chief executives from some of the country’s best-known firms have been lined up by an enterprising 20-year-old UCC student to appear at a business leaders forum in April.

Curragh trainers John Oxx and Patrick Prendergast have joined forces to form anew partnership ahead of the commencement of the new flat turf season at Naas on March 24.

A much sought after original of the Irish Proclamation of the Irish Republic is to go under the auction hammer next month.

’Gaelic Sunday’ is described on the GAA’s website as “one of the most remarkable and significant days in the history of the GAA”, writes Paul Rouse.

How parents whose children are accused of crime are dealt with must change, say senior legal practitioners.

A 17-year-old boy has appeared before the Children’s Court charged with the murder of a man in Dublin.

A boy aged 13 has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with the murder of schoolgirl Anastasia Kriegel, who was found dead last week in a derelict house in Dublin.

There’s something about Davy and always has been. Is there, these past few months, something new about Davy?

A teenager avoided getting detained for a car theft after his father made an impassioned plea and told a court that his own years of drug addiction were to blame for his son’s offending.

"The assault last a few seconds but impacted on me for the rest of my life to come."

A youth lost his sight in one eye after “slagging” on Facebook lead to a fight at Dublin's St Stephen's Green in Dublin, a court has heard.

This foreshore property in a stunning West Cork harbour setting has a long and varied sales history and is now back up for grabs, better than ever before. Back, too, the sort of value it had in 2003, guided at €900,000, writes Tommy Barker. 

Legislation is being prepared to extend Cork’s city boundary for the first time since 1965.

The minister for local government is prepared to legislate to extend Cork’s city-boundary within weeks in the absence of agreement from Cork’s two councils.

The mayors of the city and county councils in Cork have welcomed an agreed city boundary extension which could see its population double within weeks.

We’ve done our bit — now it’s up to the minister.

We’ve done our bit — now it’s up to the minister, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to attacking a man who was beaten up on his way to a neighbourhood watch meeting.

A Gaeltacht town is about to open its 30th pub and continues to buck the trend in hard-hit rural Ireland.

In a division where football is the religion of choice, Kanturk’s victory in the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling final last Saturday evening was a watershed result.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has been given until Monday to appoint an independent mediator to sort out the row over Cork City’s boundary extension, or face High Court action to prevent it.

A former lord mayor of Cork has launched a scathing attack on some outspoken opponents of the city boundary extension, accusing them of damaging the region’s reputation and likening some to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The Taoiseach and two government ministers have been warned they face a grassroots revolt over controversial plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

The first draft of an enlarged Cork City to drive the region’s growth for the next half century should emerge within weeks.

A youth who drove sideways and sped in a pedestrian area before colliding head-on with a patrol car during a high-speed pursuit has been banned from driving for six years.

New laws to use over-the-shop premises as residences, to set up a special empty-homes unit, and to appoint dedicated officers to progress ‘vacant hot-spot’ areas are among plans to improve housing.

LAST week’s figures, which show that nearly 8,000 citizens of this rich Republic — a third of them children — do not have a home, are as profound a matrix of social and political failure as any civilised, compassionate society should tolerate.

Details of the long-awaited extension of Cork’s city boundary could emerge within weeks.

Waterford firm, Kollect, is pioneering a new pay-as-you-go waste collection system, writes Trish Dromey

A Dublin youth drove sideways around a bend and sped over a pedestrian area before colliding head on with a patrol car during a high-speed pursuit, a court has heard.

Well-built Well Road home has the space and finish to give it wide appeal, writes Tommy Barker