Country singer Robert Mizzell, originally from Louisiana in the US but living in Killinlahan, Ballynagore, Co Westmeath, has been named in Revenue's latest list of tax defaulters.

A glamorous woman who "took a risk’’ with her outfit stood out in monochrome and was first past the post in the style stakes at Killarney Races, yesterday.

THE tiny white coffin was decorated with Dora the Explorer stickers, but everyone attending five-year-old Mari Connolly’s funeral yesterday would have known her favourite colour was pink.

PREPARATIONS are being made for the return of the remains of murdered Swiss language student Manuela Riedo to her home country.

The mother of Liam Keane, the teenager at the centre of a major murder trial which collapsed last week, was reportedly assaulted by an armed gang today.

Demands were made tonight for an official investigation after amurder trial collapsed following the withdrawal of a number of key prosecution witness statements.

The trial of a Limerick man accused of murder walked free from court today after the sixth prosecution witness denied making a statement identifying the accused man as the killer.