The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that a man on death row in America has now been granted Irish citizenship and is receiving consular assistance.

A bareknuckle fight between two men in Kerry which was uploaded to YouTube has been condemned.

Pre-tax profits at the publishing group owned by former RTÉ Dragons’ Den judge and current Newstalk presenter Norah Casey decreased by 76% to €78,121 in 2011.

Just two days to the semi-finals of the Connolly’s Red Mills Irish Laurels at Curraheen Park and, thankfully, still no negatives emanating from any of the kennels involved.

Gardaí are investigating a series of alleged sexual assaults in Listowel, Co Kerry.

Fine Gael TD Nicky McFadden said she was “shocked and distressed” following her diagnosis with motor neurone disease, but vowed it would be “business as usual” as far as her work was concerned.

MOTOR Neuron Disease in all its horror was brought to life by Colm Murray.

THE Pat Hennerty Sales Irish Laurels is the centrepiece of a magnificent card at Curraheen Park on Saturday night.

THE former head of a Dublin-based pharmaceutical company has been awarded almost €300,000 for wrongful dismissal — one of the largest awards ever made by the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

A MAN accused of impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a pensioner in Cork city is out on bail on condition that he refrains from calling to the homes of the elderly in the city looking for work.

A MAN accused of impersonating a member of the gardaí and stealing €28,000 lifesavings from a pensioner in Cork city was further remanded in custody yesterday.

A MAN has been charged with impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a Cork pensioner who had withdrawn his life savings from the bank and was on his way to Medjugorje.

There are 70 seats filled so far.

According to final tallies in Kildare North, no candidate will be deemed elected on the first count.

When it comes to parish pump politics, nobody in Laois-Offaly can lay a glove on Charlie Flanagan.

MICHEÁL MARTIN remains the front-runner to be the next Fianna Fáil leader, with the number of TDs publicly declaring they will support him in tomorrow’s vote now in excess of 20.

MICHEÁL MARTIN was first out of the blocks after the Fianna Fáil leadership became vacant — announcing his candidacy for the position and then watching as a steady stream of TDs declared support for him.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is on the cusp of defeating the Fianna Fáil rebellion after backbenchers lined up to show loyalty to their leader.

FIANNA Fail TD Michael Fitzpatrick has spoken about living with motor neurone disease.

THE Taoiseach returns today from Washington. At the top of his in-tray is next Tuesday’s ministerial reshuffle. This represents his last chance to refresh his Government.

A MAN tried to “shake down” a priest to hand over €200 by threatening to tell social services that the priest had frightened his child.

AN eminent journal which published a controversial research paper sparking concerns over a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism retracted it from the public record yesterday.

A YOUNG man went on trial yesterday for stealing money from his girlfriend. He claimed he wanted to use the money to put a deposit on an engagement ring for her.

Progressive Democrats leader Michael McDowell has said his days as a public representative are over.

The Kildare North constituency has elected Fianna Fáil's Aine Brady after the first count.

Marts: A 22-month old Belgian Blue X bullock that produced a carcase weighing over 409kgs (900lbs) and grade “E” has been judged Supreme Steer champion in the 2007 Slaney Foods Carcase Competition — which had a prize fund of €5,600.

A woman has appeared in Cork District Court today charged with causing serious harm to her husband in a New Year’s Eve incident, following which he died.

A man accused of killing his wife 10 years ago has been found not guilty of her murder at the Central Criminal Court toady.

The man accused of killing his wife ten years exaggerated his level of drunkenness when gardaí called to his home, the Central Criminal Court heard.

MUNSTER'S magnificent win over Leinster unleashed a tidal wave of celebration at Lansdowne Road after 5pm yesterday.

A prison sentence was suspended today in the case against a woman who killed her partner by knocking him to the ground and stamping on his head after a day of drinking with him on the street.

CRUDE oil may fall next week as rising production from OPEC helps replenish global inventories, according to a Bloomberg News survey of traders and analysts.

FIANNA FÁIL are in with a chance of holding their only seat in Kildare North following Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy’s departure to Brussels to become Ireland’s EU Commissioner.

A 21-year-old Limerick man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another youth during a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999.

A jury in the trial of a 21-year-old Limerick man accused of the murder of another youth during a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999 is still considering its verdict.

A jury has retired to consider a verdict in the trial of a 21-year-old Limerick man accused of stabbing a man to death in a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999.

A senior counsel has accused a Limerick solicitor of advising his client, a youth accused of murder, to lie to gardaí.

A Limerick solicitor advised a man accused of murder to answer "I can't remember" to questions put to him by gardai investigating a fatal stabbing, a jury has heard.

There were two large bloodstains on the ground and there was blood splattering on aluminium shutters at the scene of a fistfight that ended with one man being stabbed to death, a jury has heard.

An eyewitness to a fatal fight who alleged last Friday that he saw the accused man swinging a silver object at the deceased has accepted that it could have been a bracelet the accused was wearing.

The victim of a stabbing outside a Limerick pub three years ago went to the toilet and never came back, his friend told a murder trial today.

A Limerick publican thought he saw a third man at the scene of a fatal stabbing outside his pub two years ago, a murder trial has heard.

A Limerick publican broke down in the witness box today as he told a murder trial how a "desperate looking" 19-year-old made feeble movements towards him before collapsing from stab wounds during a fight outside the publican's premises in the Southill area of the city two years ago.

A Cork drug dealer has been jailed for eight years for possession of £500,000 worth of ecstasy with intent to supply.