Independent Senator Ivor Callely was fined €60 today at Dublin District Court for holding a mobile phone while driving his car.

A 32-year-old Dublin man who was described by a judge as "vulnerable" has been jailed for six years for possessing €64,000 of cocaine in his car.

A man accused of the murder of his navy comrade sat with his face in his hands staring at the deck when the captain of the LE Eithne informed the entire crew that a young sailor had drowned in the River Liffey.

A former INLA man, who shot himself in the head in a garda station, helped save four lives after his heart, lung and kidneys were donated to patients.