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.

German airmen who crashed in Ireland during the Second World War and survived were interned here, becoming objects of great curiosity among local people who encountered them, as Ryle Dwyer discovers.     

A man has been jailed for 13 years for raping a young woman with Down syndrome, an offence the judge described as “frightening, appalling, disgusting and depraved”.

GARDAÍ have launched a murder investigation after the badly beaten body of a 27-year-old man was found in the grounds of a castle.