Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has called former Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Patterson "a complete tube" after the British MP said politicians in the North should be denied their salaries if they fail to reach a powersharing agreement.

Sprinters David Gillick, Paul Hession and Derval O’ Rourke are all in action at the Golden League meeting in Brussels tonight.

Two Co Cork men who took part in a firebomb attack on a house in Cork last year were each jailed for four years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Four men arrested in connection with an alleged Real IRA attempted firebomb attack on a house in Co Cork earlier this week were charged with membership of an illegal organisation at the Special criminal Court in Dublin today.

The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association has criticised the Minister for Public Enterprise, Mary O’Rourke, for her decision to give control of the proposed new low cost terminal at Dublin airport to Aer Rianta.