A Sligo woman who fraudulently claimed her dead father’s pension for six years has been given a 12-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

More than 3,000 women living in the Republic of Ireland have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), it emerged today.

ONE of Kerry’s best-known literary figures will be honoured at a festival, which opened in his home village last night.

A group of secondary school students bought leg irons and an electric shock baton over the internet to expose the lack of regulation of the arms trade, it emerged tonight.