A Young Offenders cast member who admitted shoplifting twice at Blarney Woollen Mills had a horrendous history of offending, the sentencing judge said.

People at risk of homelessness have threatened to occupy vacant boarded-up council homes as the housing crisis deepens.

A Dublin woman who attacked her ex-boyfriend leaving him with injuries to his scrotal area has been given a suspended sentence today.

GALLANT PARNELL, purchased by current owners the C.C &M Syndicate from Listowel from John Flynn of Tarbert after he had been beaten two and a half lengths by Jerrys Beam in the final of the Derby Trial Stake at Charleville last season, started his campaign on a bright note when taking the Desmond Cup at Glin yesterday.