A university graduate earning €200 weekly who says it is “near impossible” to get accommodation in Dublin below the €350 monthly limit for rent allowance payments has brought a legal challenge over a “Kafkaesque” decision refusing rent supplement towards his monthly rent of €450.

Donegal’s GAA clubs have been given until December 31 to claim back a refund for a levy imposed by the Co Board on All-Ireland final tickets – but many clubs in the county are set to waive the right.

A MAN on trial for trying to extort €50,000 from his father claims he was told to get the money after a drug deal went wrong, or he and his family would be killed.