Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan did not give instructions to her legal team in relation to the dealings of whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe with senior officers also represented by her legal team, because she did not have direct factual knowledge of the issues, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.

The State has received only around €104m in royalty payments from the operator of the Kinsale and Ballycotton gas fields off the coast of Cork since 1998, new figures show.

A youth is facing trial for an attack in Dublin where a French national was injured when a bottle was smashed over his head and he was viciously beaten after being knocked to the ground.

US Navy Flag has been crowned the leading juvenile of 2017 following the publication of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse rankings.

People from Dolores O’Riordan’s home city of Limerick have paid tribute to the late Cranberries singer.

At this remove, and after so much water has flowed under the bridge, the unannounced, low-key Dublin meeting between Northern Ireland prime minister Terence O’Neill and then taoiseach Jack Lynch 50 years ago today hardly seems significant much less seismic but it was all of that.

GOVERNMENT ministers never tire of telling us that public spending decisions are about setting priorities, never more so than when an economy is recovering from recession and fiscal prudence demands that the mistakes of the past must not be repeated.

Olympic medalist Cian O’Connor’s horse breeding company last year cleared profits of €1.65m and is on course for another bumper year.

By Eamon Quinn

Business organisations have largely welcomed the Brexit hard border breakthrough, but cautioned that there is a long road ahead in negotiations, before trade arrangements become certain.

An action seeking summary judgment against property developer and one of the Maple 10, Patrick Kearney for over €16m has been admitted to the fast track Commercial Court.

Sean O’Brien says the British and Irish Lions should have "comfortably" beaten New Zealand this summer and claims the coaching team did not get preparations right before the Tests.

Financial pressure on the North’s health service could force the UK Government to step in if political powersharing cannot be resurrected soon, James Brokenshire has warned.

A doctor charged with the murder of her three-year-old son in Dublin was too sick to attend a court hearing today, reports Tom Tuite.

A solicitor who ran up an estimated €500,000 deficit on his client account has been struck off by the High Court.

A 34-year-old Dublin man has been convicted of being the murderer in drag who gunned a man down with a sub-machine gun in a busy car park.

An Irish man described by the FBI as the world’s ’largest facilitator of child pornography’ is making a legal bid aimed at halting his extradition to the United States.

SPORT Ireland has confirmed in a statement that it has sanctioned Kerry footballer Brendan O’Sullivan for an anti-doping rule violation but accepts that the player "bore no significant fault or negligence" for the infraction.

Runaway Fine Gael leadership candidate Leo Varadkar has ruled out calling a snap election and will not give Enda Kenny an official Brexit role should he gain power.

A 15-year-old Junior Cert student from Cork, who had to have both legs amputated below the knee after contracting meningitis when she was three, has sued an out-of-hours family doctor service in relation to her care.

Update 12.33pm: A man in his 60s is to appear before a court in Tralee today in connection with the death of an elderly farmer yesterday in what local reports suggest may have been ’a row over noise’.

Northern Ireland’s political leaders have traded angry words in the last televised debate of the Assembly election campaign.

The Transport Minister Shane Ross is only concerned with issues affecting his own constituency, according to the National Bus and Rail Union.

The Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan is being urged to pick up the phone and speak personally to a series of Garda whistleblowers.

A Cork father-of-nine who brutally raped his teenage daughter on a weekly basis when she was aged between 16 and 17 has been jailed for nine years, writes Isabel Hayes.

Update: Fine Gael deputy leader James Reilly has spoken on the Sean O’Rourke show on RTE radio one about the donation fiasco.

A brass band with a 250-year history, at least, and which performed at the funerals of luminaries such as Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and O’Donovan Rossa will be giving performances in West Cork this week.

One could mistakenly think that, with his successes to date, Ryanair chief executive, Michael O’Leary, might be kicking his heels a little. After all, he runs the biggest airline in Europe. It is highly profitable and Mr O’Leary’s success has been well-rewarded.

THE Health Service Executive director general Tony O’Brien yesterday asked a question that has been begging for an answer for years. Mr O’Brien wondered why the State contests long-running medical negligence cases that delay compensation — especially as it loses virtually all of them.

A consulting company has told the High Court that billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has left “clouded in mystery” exactly how material from the firm’s computer files ended up on a USB stick placed in an envelope sent anonymously to Mr O’Brien.

Athenry highlights O’Brien five-timer

Ryanair’s new image is paying off for the airline and its famously outspoken boss.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary defended himself and his company robustly in heated exchanges in Brussels yesterday, hosted by Cork MEP Deirdre Clune.

An Oireachtas committee has rejected demands from businessman Denis O’Brien to sanction Independent TD Catherine Murphy for making allegations about his bank deals in the Dáil.

RTÉ welcomed the clearance from the High Court yesterday to report Dáil debates concerning billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien, saying it sent out an important message to TDs and the media.

Billionaire tycoon Denis O’Brien should reveal his business arrangements with IBRC to end an escalating “constitutional crisis” over Dáil privilege, opposition leaders have said.

Peter Lawrie did not know he would be playing at Wentworth until Monday afternoon but he had plenty of reasons to thank European Tour chief executive George O’Grady for the tournament invitation that could help him regain his Tour card for next season.

There would have been no point in RTÉ broadcasting a report which made anonymous businessman Denis O’Brien’s affairs relating to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), the High Court has heard.

Former businessman Breifne O’Brien has been granted an extension to appeal his prison sentence for inducing people to advance millions of euro to him to invest in bogus property deals.

A last-ditch bid by retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife to prevent a bank-appointed receiver taking possession of their former family home in Killiney, Co Dublin, at noon today has failed at the Supreme Court.