In 2005, Michael Gibbons was in a helicopter crash. He survived but his two best friends died. It was two years before he walked again but he tells Ailin Quinlan it thaught him to ’dance in the rain’.

A Dublin man who was arrested for membership of the IRA while out on bail on another charge of IRA membership has been refused bail by the Special Criminal Court.

Phil Mickelson hurled a verbal grenade into the Ryder Cup pressure cooker yesterday by suggesting the ongoing legal dispute between Rory McIlroy and his management company was affecting European team harmony.

The fact that Star Wars director JJ Abrams spent three days in south Kerry filming is prompting hopes that Skellig Michael may have more exposure in the movie than had initially been expected.

A Trinity College graduate and three men intercepted by armed gardaí outside the premises of a gun dealer have received sentences ranging from six to seven years for the possession of firearms and ammunition.

A Trinity College graduate and three men who were intercepted by armed gardaí outside the premises of a firearms dealer have received sentences ranging from six to seven years for the possession of firearms and ammunition.

Recent studies into wildlife in Ireland have thrown up some interesting findings, with more people now taking note of what is emerging from universities and research institutes.

Caher Island is reputed to have been visited by St Patrick. Dan MacCarthy visits on a special day

A Dublin man charged with membership of the IRA has had his bail conditions varied to allow him attend a wedding where his co-accused is to be the best man.

Surrounded by kids from the First Tee of Miami, Rory McIlroy hunkered down yesterday to pose for pictures and put his meltdown in perspective.

By Ray Managh

A Dublin man convicted of murdering a security guard during an armed raid at Clerys department store in 1982 is to make a High Court bid for freedom tomorrow.

A Wexford man has been jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin this morning for the possession of a magnum revolver and ammunition.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his friend has heard he only meant to shoot him in the arms and thought he would run.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been taken on to add some clout to Northern Ireland-based property development company Parker Green International as it looks to further expand its international presence.

A Dublin man shot his friend with a sawn off shotgun outside a southside suburban shopping centre and then threw him from his car as a favour for drugs dealers, a court heard today.

THE statement read by Aisling McLaughlin:

A man accused of strangling his wife told gardaí he did not believe his wife would kill herself and leave her son, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

"A pox on all your houses" was the comment of Frank Ward after he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Patrick McCartan for shooting publican Charlie Chawke during an armed robbery three years ago.

A "functioning alcoholic and drug user" who boasted in a pub that he had a semiautomatic pistol has been given a 15-years prison sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell who described him as "a danger to society"

THE earliest human settlement in the south-west of Ireland has been discovered in a huge archaeological find on the Lakes of Killarney.

THE husband of hotelier Siobhan Kearney who was found strangled to death over a year ago has been charged with her murder.

Heritage experts today condemned the destruction of part of a 3,000-year-old Celtic fort in Co Kerry.