A youth has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a young girl after she fell asleep.

KERRY may be in the No 1 position in relation to Gaelic football but it could end up at the bottom of the national broadband league.

A man who texted his mother warning her to get the "stuff" out of the hole in his mattress during a garda search for drugs and ammunition at his home has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Two youths appeared in court yesterday charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old man in north Dublin last September.