A couple and their four- month-old baby, who were mistakenly boarded up in their home by council workmen, have settled a €76,000 claim for damages for an undisclosed sum.

DIFFERENT sport, different day, but this was depressingly reminiscent of Ireland’s facile defeat of Canada in Thomond Park on Saturday with one side doing what they wanted, when they wanted against an inferior opponent.

BRIAN KEARNEY had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhán a jury in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin heard as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases yesterday.

Brian Kearney had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife Siobhan, a jury in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard, as prosecution and defence counsel closed their cases today.

A NUMBER of potentially life-saving clinical trials are under threat because of red tape.