A mother and son have described their ordeal of being held captive near the Wicklow Mountains during a €2.28m robbery almost 15 years ago.

They were aware of his daily routine and told him “we're watching you all the time”, the court heard.

A cash-in-transit van driver has described how armed raiders entered his home and pointed a gun at his teenage son's head as the boy lay on the floor having a panic attack.

The country’s health products’ watchdog has said food intolerance tests are clinically invalid and nobody should act on the results of the tests without expert advice from a medical expert.

Irish people make 2m visits per month to a pharmacy.

A new music industry conference is to be held in Cork this summer, with speakers to include the head of the record label behind Mumford & Sons and Florence and the Machine, along with the agents for bands like Muse and Coldplay.

Sean O’Brien’s focus on Romania may just have wavered for an hour or so last night.

One of four men accused of taking part in the kidnapping of a Securicor worker and his family and the robbery of the firm of €2.28m has been found guilty on day 49 of the trial.

One of four men accused of taking part in the kidnapping of a Securicor worker and his family and the robbery of the company of €2.28m has been found guilty on day 49 of the trial.

The trial of four men accused of kidnapping a Securicor worker and his family and robbing €2.28m has heard that two of the accused were “lifelong friends” and members of a horse-owning syndicate.

The Government should honour the Croke Park agreement in full, according to the president of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA), Niall Byrne.

New national standards for the protection and welfare of children include annual staff appraisals and safeguards for whistleblowers in what the Government called a “radical step forward”.

“No realm ever survived the demise of its coin,” said Declan Ganley as he predicted that the unfolding Greek tragedy could end the European project.

The health watchdog expects to begin a wave of extended inspections into aspects of child protection services before the end of the year.

A Dublin man has brought a legal challenged aimed at preventing him being tried for a third time on charges of kidnapping a family and stealing €2.28m.

A man who flew to Spain to avoid giving evidence during the trial of two men accused of taking part in a “tiger kidnapping” has been jailed for two weeks for “contempt of court”.

The jury in the trial of two men accused of kidnapping a family and stealing €2.28m has failed to reach a verdict today.

A juror in the trial of two men accused of a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery have said they have reached a “stalemate” in their deliberations.

The jury is due to go out this morning in the trial of two men accused of carrying out a €2.28m tiger raid in Dublin six years ago.

The trial of two men accused of taking part in a €2.28m tiger raid six years ago has been adjourned.

THE history of a landmark Waterford hospital that closed amid public protests during a previous round of health cutbacks is told in a book being launched today.

A forensics expert has told the trial of two men accused of taking part in a €2.28m tiger raid that the pattern of telephone calls between two of the suspects was unusual in the run up to the robbery.

The trial of two men accused of taking part in a €2.28m tiger raid six years ago has continued in legal argument.

A father-of-one accused of taking part in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery was told his life was in danger after the incident, a trial has heard.

A man arrested as part of an investigation into a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" told gardaí a “cock and bull story” about a black notebook found during a search of his home, a trial has heard.

Gardaí investigating a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" offered a place on the witness protection programme to one of the two men now accused of taking part in the robbery.

One of alleged raiders in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" fell asleep during the incident and had to be woken up by his accomplice, a trial has heard.

THE trial of two men accused of taking part in a €2.28 million tiger kidnapping robbery has heard evidence of dozens of phonecalls allegedly made by the raiders during the incident.

GARDAÍ investigating a €2.28 million tiger raid carried out 64 searches and arrested 24 people in a single day, a trial has heard.

A man accused of taking part in a €2.28m tiger raid five years ago paid €10,000 in cash for a car a month after the robbery, a court has heard.

THE trial of two men accused of taking part in a tiger raid has heard one of the accused may have been the victim of a robbery a year earlier.

The trial of two men accused of taking part in a tiger raid has heard one of the accused may have been the victim of a robbery a year earlier.

A CASH-IN-TRANSIT driver whose family were held hostage during a tiger kidnapping six years ago has told a trial that he could not drive his van during the incident because he was crying so much.

A cash-in-transit driver whose family were held hostage during a tiger-kidnapping six years ago has told a trial that he couldn't drive his van during the incident because he was crying so much.

TWO men have gone on trial accused of robbing €2.3 million in a tiger kidnapping six years ago in which the family of a cash-in-transit van driver was held hostage by armed men.

Two men have gone on trial accused of robbing €2.28m in a tiger kidnapping six years ago in which the family of a cash-in-transit van driver was held hostage by armed men.

MUSIC bloggers have met the country’s music rights watchdog to discuss controversial new plans to impose a licence on websites which share music sent to them by bands.

Three men convicted of carrying out a €2.28m “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago face up to life in prison when their sentence is finalised next week.

THREE men have been convicted of carrying out a €2.28 million “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago.

Three men have been convicted of carrying out a €2.28m “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago.

The jury in the trial of five men accused of a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery have concluded their first day's deliberations without reaching a verdict.

The jury in the trial of five men charged with falsely imprisoning a Securicor worker, his wife and two sons, and with stealing €2.28m, has retired to consider its verdict.

Deliberations in the trial of five men accused of involvement in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery will not begin until next week because several jurors have tickets for tonight's U2 concert.

Closing speeches have finished in the trial of five men accused of involvement in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery.