By Ray Managh

The Courts Service has revealed RTE’s bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds' legal team was more than €150,000.

A Lithuanian national has been convicted of raping and threatenting to kill a 24-year-old Latvian woman.

The trial of a Lithuanian man with an address in Meath accused of raping and falsely imprisoning a Latvian woman has continued in the absence of the accused at the Central Criminal Court today.

THE full inquest into the deaths of the victims of the 1974 loyalist bombing of Dublin is unlikely to take place until after the publication of an independent investigation into the atrocity next autumn.