A GAA player has been acquitted of assaulting an opponent and breaking his nose during a Dublin league game.

A psychiatrist has told a court he believes a Co Kilkenny man who fatally attacked his mother at the family home last year was suffering from a mental disorder.

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 DRUGS courier who was viciously assaulted a week after he admitted having €200,000 of heroin has avoided jail because of the severity of the brain injury he suffered in the attack.

EU finance ministers were warned tonight to abandon “brutal austerity” as the answer to the sovereign debt crisis and instead give struggling countries a chance to restore collapsing economies.

MORE than 23,000 people have been fined in the first eight months of the year for using their mobile phones while driving, garda figures have revealed.

A DRIVER using a mobile phone smashed into a tree and died at the scene, an inquest heard yesterday.

Tens of thousands of workers took to the streets of European cities today to protest at job cuts, public spending reductions and tax rises.

Britain's chancellor George Osborne will today endorse sweeping European supervisory powers over banks and financial institutions in response to the economic crisis.

A MAN was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday after plotting to kill his adoptive parents with a friend he met on the internet just three months earlier.

SO the ruling class believes that rejecting the project of the ruling class, the Lisbon Treaty, was damaging to Ireland’s interests (Irish Examiner, July 27).

British prime minister Gordon Brown will offer new British plans for tighter banking controls today as the blueprint for the rest of the world.

The head of the European Commission today called for action and not words when EU leaders gather in Brussels tomorrow to discuss the financial crisis.

The British property market showed signs of stabilising last month after figures today revealed a surprise increase in January house purchase mortgage approvals and a hike in remortgaging activity.

Monks leading the biggest public protest staged in Burma for nearly 20 years were today warned of a government crackdown.

New research on how equality in the workplace can be good for business is to be launched today.

NEPTUNE needed to beat the Tigers to keep alive any hope of making the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague quarter-finals in March and they eventually did by the narrowest of margins.

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Britain must make its decision on the euro within the next year or so and ‘‘get on with its life’’, the director general of the CBI urged today.

The Bank Of England was today urged by both sides of industry to cut interest rates to give the economy a much-needed boost.

A leading City analyst says it is too early to talk about an interest rate cut in the UK after the US Federal Reserve's surprise move to cut rates on the other side of the Atlantic.