'The Crusader' was decapitated at the crypt in St Michan's Church, Church Street in February of this year and stolen, along with another skull.

New York-based Fr Michael O'Leary, who is facing drug charges in the US, is not prevented from travelling to Ireland to give evidence in a dispute involving him and his siblings over their late mother's will.

Former Irish rugby international Terry Kennedy told a judge yesterday that “two grown men had let themselves down very badly” in a sideline scuffle at a schoolboys soccer match.

Two brothers who used a toy gun to hijack a lorry and then gave the driver €30 from the proceeds of a robbery on a shop have been jailed for a combined total of 11 years.