TV presenter Dara Ó’Briain has hit out at a BBC ban on all-male line-ups for comedy panel shows, saying viewers will now see any female guest as a “token woman”.

Gardaí breached the constitutional right to privacy of a man who was secretly recorded offering two undercover officers money to import cocaine to Ireland, a court has heard.

A team of stars including Irish comic Dara O’Briain will brave crocodiles, hippos and huge rapids by tackling more than 100km (more than 60 miles) of the Zambezi River.

A host of Ireland’s finest performers are up for Britain’s coveted National Television Awards, it has emerged.

A Dublin man has gone on trial accused of threatening to kill a woman and put her in the boot of his car as she collected her son from school.

Limerick’s Tim Rice did what his three fellow countrymen couldn’t in northern France yesterday — progress to the next stage of European Tour qualifying.

The former personal assistant of Adam Clayton has been jailed for seven years after she was found guilty of stealing nearly €3m from his bank accounts.

Adam Clayton has denied he asked his former personal assistant to buy things on her credit card to preserve the credit limit on his.

The former personal assistant of U2 star Adam Clayton grossly breached his trust when she siphoned €2.8m from his bank accounts, a court has heard.

A former personal assistant of U2’s Adam Clayton earned his trust before being promoted to the role and embezzling €2.8m of his funds, a court heard today.

Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll, star of BBC1’s Mrs Brown’s Boys, saw off competition including Rev and Fresh Meat to win the Situation Comedy category.

The owner of a chain of headshops faces up to 10 years for illegally importing Viagra-like products.

Dara Ó Briain’s Irish wit is loved in England where he is a big hit as a TV host, but stand-up is his first love, writes Carl Dixon

A Dublin woman who attacked her ex-boyfriend leaving him with injuries to his scrotal area has been given a suspended sentence today.

THE prosecution in a murder trial has told the jury it can use evidence of motive, DNA and mobile phone use together to convict the defendant of murder.

The prosecution in a murder trial has told the jury it can use evidence of motive, DNA and mobile phone use together to convict the defendant of murder.

A Polish man has received a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for smuggling 28,900 cigarettes worth over €9,000 into Ireland.

Ireland’s top comedians today appealed to desperate young men not to see suicide as a solution to their problems.

THE biggest show in town is coming to Cork and it will have ABBA fans dancing in the isles.

TENS of thousands of people in the south-west face losing live-saving emergency health services with fears that Bantry Hospital is slowly being dripped dry of resources and staff.

Tara Delaney turned the tables in Las Vegas as she recovered from an awkward start to land her best finish of the autumn for the Kent State University women’s golf team.

A drug addicted robber who gardaí described as "looking like a ghost" at the time of his arrest for four armed bank raids has been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

IT wasn’t so much a case of the cat laughing as the cat scratching at last weekend’s Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival after a controversial comic was booed off stage after making a reference to the Mr A underage sex case.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of making false allegations of indecent assault against broadcaster Eamon Dunphy has failed to reach an agreement after five hours of deliberations.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is investigating ways to inform victims of crime why their case won’t be prosecuted.