The sentencing hearing for three former Anglo Irish Bank executives - found guilty of trying to defraud Revenue - has resumed in Dublin.

The prosecution has finished its evidence in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank officials accused of hiding accounts from the Revenue in an alleged tax evasion scheme.

A computer programme was created by an Anglo Irish Bank employee to remove records of a company connected to the bank from its IT system, a trial has been told.

Fresh charges have been brought against two former Anglo Irish Bank senior executives who are awaiting trial for Revenue offences.

Three Garda officers under investigation over the improper quashing of penalty points had cleared more than 600 driving licences over a three-and-a-half year period, an internal inquiry has found.

Praveen Halappanavar is calling time on the Government as today is the deadline he set for the establishment of a public inquiry into his wife Savita's death.

Laois 0-20 Carlow 0-13

Limerick 4-12 Clare 2-13

Gavin O'Mahoney will captain the Limerick team from full-back in tomorrow's Allianz Hurling League Division 2 final at Cusack Park (throw-in 6.30pm).

A receiver has secured a High Court injunction restraining a businessman from impeding him from taking possession of a hotel, pub and nightclub that have more than 100 employees in Tallaght, Dublin.

LAOIS SHC FINAL: Clough/Ballacolla 2-13 Portlaoise 1-10

Waterford 3-11 IT Tralee 3-09

A friend of a man who died from stab wounds following an altercation on the way home from a pub has told a jury that he saw the man accused of murder stab the deceased.

Small-time criminals who parade their ill-gotten gains around communities are now being targeted by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), it was claimed today.

Kerry continue their quest for the third consecutive GAA All-Ireland SFC title this Sunday when they take on Cork at Croker Park, throw in at 3.30pm.

Following consultation with members of the Management Committee and Central Competitions Control Committee, the GAA has issued a statement this lunch-time confirming the postponement of Sunday's triple bill of All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals at Croke Park.

Financial services company, International Securities Trading Corporation ISTC, has reported first half pre-tax profits up 300% to €6.8m, compared to the same period last year.

SHE looks like a teenage angel, but 16-year-old Chelsea O’Mahoney was the personification of evil as she filmed friends stamping on a man’s head in one of several so-called “happy slapping” attacks on randomly picked victims.

TIARNAN O'MAHONEY walked away from Anglo Irish Bank with a near €4 million pay-off.

Limerick 0-13 Tipperary 1-7

BALLINASLOE experienced a day borrowed from last summer yesterday, one of those rare occasions in the west when there was no rain-or threat of it. Perhaps the sense that spring was in the air jolted Galway enough to turn on the style in the second-half.

Republic of Ireland Under 19 manager Sean McCaffrey has named a strong 20-man squad for two friendly internationals against Slovenia in Dublin in two weeks time as he continues preparations for the UEFA Under 19 Championship qualifiers in May.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial told his girlfriend two weeks after the 18-year-old died outside the Burlington Hotel that he kicked him once in the chest when he was lying on the ground, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

Only 45% of Irish business managers say that their companies have an environmental strategy or waste management plan in place, according to the results of a survey by Deloitte & Touche.

Bath 8-40 Munster

The number of passengers injured when two rush-hour trains collided outside a London station has risen to nine.

Passengers have been telling how they came away unscathed after two trains collided in south east London.