For a while, it felt as if I was the only author in Ireland who hadn’t gone on an artist’s retreat to the famed Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Monaghan. 

Major deficiencies in staffing and systems at Tusla, the State’s child and family agency, meant serious child abuse allegations were not properly handled, a damning new report will conclude today.

Paul Williams was surprised to hear his name brought up in a Dáil debate about the quashing of penalty points. This was in late 2013, the Disclosures Tribunal heard yesterday.

A Daily Mail journalist has told the Charleton Tribunal that she believed a colleague who allegedly told her a garda whistleblower was a child abuser was “being used” by somebody.

Irish Independent editor Fionnán Sheahan told his colleague Anne Harris that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe was a paedophile, the Charleton tribunal has been told.

A fashion designer accused of murdering her French nanny was charming and manipulative with a violent streak, an ex-boyfriend revealed.

The former head of the Department of Justice denies it was inappropriate that the ex-Garda commissioner met a Dáil committee chairman to argue against a whistleblower giving evidence.

A woman has told a divorce court judge in England that she did not pay a man money with a "view to getting rid of" her estranged property tycoon husband.

They mightn’t pay the new Doctor Who as much as a man but at least she doesn’t have to choose between Miss, Mrs or Ms.

Allegations of child sexual abuse made against Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe “came out of the blue” when they were put to him nine years later, a Tribunal Judge has said.

Andreea Cristea, 31, was knocked into the river when Khalid Masood drove his rented car into pedestrians.

A "callous" 22-year-old man murdered his partner's two-year-old boy by "kicking or punching" him in the stomach while the child's mother had gone to the shops, a UK court has heard.

A postcard allegedly sent by a murdered woman shortly after she disappeared more than 20 years ago is a fake, according to police in England.

Riddle me this, how is Willie Mullins’ Melon still favourite for Cheltenham’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle?

A man who shot a crying 18-month-old boy in the head with an air rifle has been jailed for two years.

An alcoholic slept for a night next to the body of his girlfriend after he had bludgeoned over the head with a lump hammer, a court has heard.

A former stable hand who killed a 60-year-old woman who replaced him in his job has been jailed by a UK court for a minimum of 24 years by a judge who said the murder was a "culmination of seething resentment".

A killer taxi driver accused of murdering a sex worker in the UK has insisted to a jury that he never knew her.

A murderer offered police "another one" before leading them to a remote field where he had buried a sex worker he killed years earlier, a court in England has heard.

A 21-year-old woman who found herself at the centre of a British High Court battle after complaining that she had been imprisoned by her father in Saudi Arabia has yet to return to the UK - despite a landmark ruling by a judge, a lawyer says.

The final of the Red Mills Open Unraced Stake, worth €6,000 to the winner, was the main attraction on the ten race card at Curraheen Park on Saturday night with victory going to the 5/4 favourite Burgess Dubh (Hondo Black-Borna Luck) before a big crowd in 28.57 on a surface rated .10 fast for 525 and .05 for 330.

Saudi academic Mohammed Al-Jeffery must facilitate the return of his 21-year-old daughter Amina to the UK, a High Court judge has ruled today.

Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Sleeyp Hollow, Batman Returns... Tim Burton used to be the creator of our dreams and nightmares before he lost his way in CG nonsense and Wonderland.

The first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting took place at a sun-drenched Farrangalway on Saturday evening and Ciaran Fennessy increased his advantage to four over the absent Derek O’Connor in the southern riders’ championship by partnering a two-timer to bring his tally in the region to 23.

The partner of a police officer accused of assaulting a security guard after shoplifting from a supermarket hatched a plan with her hairdresser to provide a false statement in a bid to stop him losing his job, a court has heard.

The jury in the trial of a Derry man accused of murdering a pregnant woman has heard that blood matching the DNA of the deceased was found on a white t-shirt found at the apartment of the accused man.

Tomorrow’s action at the Curragh, which features the Palmerstown House Irish St Leger, brings Champions’ Weekend to a close, while the seven-day festival at Listowel gets underway with a very competitive card.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

The world’s most famous frog and his partner Miss Piggy, who have been on-again, off-again over the years, have called it quits.

It’s a Muppet breakup! Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog have gone their separate ways romantically, according to an official statement from both parties. It runs like this:

In this week’s Q & A, Kehlan talks with Rani Dabrai of Miss Moneypenny, which provides virtual office services for businesses

A giant of English film and theatre, Ian McKellan looks set to enchant another generation with his portrayal of London’s most famous detective as a frail recluse in his 90s says Will Lawrence

A judge has branded a mother who went on the run with her three-year-old son after becoming embroiled in a bitter custody battle with the boy’s father “utterly irresponsible”.

A three-year-old boy who was missing with his mother in England for more than two weeks is now “safely back” in the care of his father.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

A baby killed by her father in England was never on a child protection plan despite authorities knowing of “horrific domestic abuse, drug-taking and injuries to the child”, a damning report has revealed.

Gerry O’Leary from Ladys Bridge will treasure fond memories of yesterday’s United Hunt Club’s point-to-point meeting at Ballindenisk as he rode and trained his first winner courtesy of Antirrhinum in the confined hunt maiden.