Ten prisoners transferred to Irish prisons after receiving lengthy sentences in the UK have had to be freed because of a loophole in the law.

Robin Thicke believes he is "blue-eyed soul" like John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

A 51-year-old Kildare man serving life for murdering his ex partner has today been given a three-year jail sentence for stabbing her new boyfriend.

A Kildare man who stabbed his ex-partner six times in the chest in what has been described as a “shocking, sad and outrageous death” by the presiding judge, has been handed a mandatory life sentence after he was found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A 51-year-old Kildare man has been convicted of murdering his ex partner.

A verdict is expected today in the trial of a 51-year-old Kildare man accused of murdering his ex partner.

The trial of a Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest has reached its closing stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest did not show any symptoms of suffering from Bipolar disorder, a mental illness, a forensic psychiatrist has told a Central Criminal Court jury.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times phoned the emergency service hours before the stabbing as he had concerns for her welfare.

A jury in a trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-partner has heard evidence of phone records between the victim's mobile phone and the accused's mobile phone.

A jury has heard phone conversations took place between a 50-year-old Kildare man and his ex-partner before he called to her home and stabbed her to death.

A 49-year-old Kildare man has admitted killing a young mother in Athy last May.

A MAN was remanded in custody last night over the killing of a mother-of-one in Co Kildare.

A man was remanded in custody tonight over the killing of a mother of one.

POP sensations Westlife and Irish trad rock legends Horslips were added to the Live at the Marquee summer music festival last night.

Sarah Palin tonight said she was sorry if she ’cost John McCain even one vote’ and that it was giving her too much credit to blame her for the Republican defeat.

THE BODY of a teenager who became ill and died suddenly while on holiday with friends at a Spanish resort was flown back to Ireland yesterday.

Cavan manager Donal Keoghan has named five debutants in his side to play Antrim this Sunday in the Ulster Senior Football Championship.

ROSCOMMON manager Michael Ryan gives championship debuts to three players for Sunday’s Connacht SFC clash with Galway in Pearse Stadium.

A Co Louth man has been jailed for three years for his role in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of what was described as "a dramatic accident that never happened" in 1996.

A jury has found a Co Louth man guilty of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 and has acquitted a retired garda of the same charge arising out of what was called "a dramtic accident that never happened".

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict.

The jury in the £151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial is scheduled to begin its deliberations tomorrow at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial has been addressed by counsel for the prosecution and the defence on day-12 of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A lorry driver accused of conspiracy in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance trial has told the jury in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he had nothing to do with the claims made.

Gardaí discovered a Irl £63,000-valued Scania transporter, which had been stolen in 1994 from a Customs and Excise pound at Rosslare Port, when they searched a north Co Louth premises in 1998.

A Mullingar businessman has told an alleged Ir£151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy trial that invoices purporting to come from him were spurious documents and had not been signed by him.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

A man who gave a false address paid Stg£10,000 cash in Northern Ireland currency to buy a badly damaged Scania truck from an English salvage company.

A professional motor assessor has told the Ir£151,000 fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a Rover car he examined was never involved in a traffic accident.

A former garda accused of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 told detectives he saw a car and a truck lying in a ditch on a new Co Leitrim bypass.

A factory security man has told the jury in the 'fake accident' trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that neither saw nor heard any indication of a major collision at the alleged scene.

The girlfriend of veteran crooner Des O’Connor is launching a pop career and has been handed her first live show at Britain's Royal Albert Hall this week.

Three Irishmen appeared in court in London today in connection with an alleged plot to smuggle weapons from Slovakia for the Real IRA.

Three men accused of IRA membership and arms offences have appeared in court in London for a brief pre-trial hearing.