A quick-thinking garda has become the first person to receive two National Bravery Awards in the same year in the ceremony’s 67-year history, after risking his own life to ensure the safety of the public.

Four former directors of Pierse Contracting, once Ireland’s third-largest building contractor, are men of honesty and integrity who believed they were acting responsibly in allowing the firm to continue trading beyond 2009, the High Court has been told.

The man who promoted himself as the “financial doctor who engineers successful outcomes to difficult financial situations” is liquidating his company, the High Court heard yesterday.

Tommy Barker says extended Schull home has a lot to recommend it.

THE Dalai Lama yesterday praised an Irish Buddhist centre that will care for terminally ill people.

There were violent scenes at Cork Circuit Criminal Court this evening when a traveller was jailed for five years for carrying a sawn-off shotgun.