A judge is refusing to approve the release of €2,000 from a €10,000 compensation payment to send a six-year-old boy and his six siblings on a holiday to Disneyland.

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The latest acting veteran who may have joined the cast of Game of Thrones is Richard E Grant, according to unconfirmed reports in the UK.

A 14-year-old boy drove a car containing his bloodied and disfigured father and a 20-month-old baby away from the scene of a frenzied machete attack.

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A court has heard that two cousins turned up to a funeral armed with machetes and wearing bullet-proof vests.

One garda was used as a “human shield” from a hatchet-wielding 16-year-old while gardaí were powerless to prevent another man slashing his victim 11 times across the face and back with a Stanley knife in broad daylight.

A 20-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with slashing another man on the face with a Stanley knife as part of an ongoing Traveller feud.

PHIL HOGAN’S attempts to block a constituent family getting housing needs to be put in context.

DIVISIONAL forces have been commonplace in Cork and Kerry senior championships for several years but embracing the concept in Tipperary has led to an unlikely football success story.

IN the battle of the sideline operators tomorrow, David Power stands out from the norm.

TIPPERARY champions Thurles Sarsfields put their poor divisional form behind them as they hammered Knockavilla Kickhams 6-21 to 1-12 in the first round of the county senior hurling championship at The Ragg.

A gang of travellers thought to have been responsible for nearly half of the UK's caravan thefts over a three-year period were jailed today.

A STRONG second-half was enough to see Nenagh CBS upset the odds and surge past Waterford’s De La Salle in an entertaining Harty Cup quarter-final in Clonmel yesterday.

A RETIRED Department of Defence engineer was bound to the peace for 12 months after a court heard he told a victim support worker he had hired thugs to harm his neighbours.

A 47-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday given a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of his brother, near Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, on December 17, 2006.

A jury hearing the trial of two men accused of attempting to murder members of a Traveller family must decide who drove the car into their halting site and who fired the shotgun, a court has heard.

The man accused of trying to kill three members of a Traveller family by firing a sawn off shotgun at them says he was never in their halting site the day Garda allege the shooting happened, a court has heard.

Gardaí were unable to search an assembled crowd of up to 80 travellers outside a Sligo cemetery on the day a traveller was fatally shot in the back at a family funeral, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A murder trial of five men accused of killing a man at family funeral has heard that a feud allegedly existed between two Traveller families after a bare knuckle fight in London 15 years ago.

The nephew of a man murdered at a funeral in Sligo has told a jury that the 150-strong crowd that allegedly surrounded him and his father outside a cemetery was "well-organised. Every man in the crowd knew exactly what to do."

AN HISTORIC day for Bride Rovers, winning the inaugural Munster Intermediate Club hurling title at Kilmallock yesterday - coming five months after they captured their first Cork IHC title last October.

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TOP class boxing returns to Fermoy tonight with a star-studded show at the Rowing Club where the McDonagh brothers will top the bill.

THE intervention of GAA president Seán McCague and the management committee in Croke Park has resulted in Tipperary’s John Boland missing out on the greatest day in his sporting life.

At the Central Criminal Court, a Co Galway man has been jailed for life for the rape and murder of a Galway schoolgirl.