A county council’s legal bill doubled after an unseemly squabble with a department over the costs of defending a damages action taken by a woman grieving for her husband and daughter.

At 9.30am on Feb 24, 1994, an unlicensed ferry pulled away from the slip at Castletownbere bound for its second journey of the morning to Bere Island.

A 75 year-old Columban missionary who has a history of sexually abusing children has been given a 3-year suspended sentence for an indecent assault on a boy in the early 1980s.

A Dublin drug addict has been jailed for six years today for possession of almost €3m worth of heroin hidden inside three fire extinguishers.

The family of double killer John Gallagher have made contact with Justice Minister Alan Shatter, asking him to detain their brother at the Central Mental Hospital indefinitely.

The man who cheated death when double killer John Gallagher’s gun jammed in his face says he fears he will have to come face to face with him again soon.

The misery, deprivations and loneliness of an Irish rural existence are brought to life in Jack Healy’s performance of Patrick Kavanagh’s epic poem, ‘The Great Hunger,’ directed by Ger Fitzgibbon.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football.

The Bishop of Raphoe has said he would welcome an audit or any intervention which would help ensure the safety of children.

A former priest was today charged with indecently assaulting two boys at a health centre in north Co Dublin.