A lawyer for Kevin Costner told a court his fame was the only reason fellow Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin and another person were suing him over their investments in an oil clean-up device tried out after BP’s spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two Hollywood stars could spend the next two weeks in a New Orleans courtroom on opposing sides in a legal drama.

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

Stephen Cadogan reports from the National Dairy Show at Millstreet.

IMAGINE the scene. You take your seat on the plane and the pilot welcomes you on board.

THE nine-year-old sole survivor of the Libyan plane crash has not yet been told that his parents and older brother were killed in the crash, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said.

The boy who survived a plane crash that killed 103 people in the Libyan capital is in satisfactory condition after surgery on his shattered legs, doctors said today.

THE lightning and turbulence that may have hit an Air France jet flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris are rarely the cause of plane crashes, analysts say.

Tuesday marks the 90th anniversary of WW1 and here historian and journalist, Ryle Dwyer, argues why it should mark the beginning of a new understanding and respect for the 200,000 Irishmen who fought and the 38,000 who died in one of the world’s most horrendous conflicts.

Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search of bodies after powerful storms swept through Florida.

An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year’s Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between Indonesian islands, the pilot reported heavy winds – then the plane disappeared.

CompiledJanuary 2005: Paul Buckley, aged 32, of Baker’s Road, Gurranabraher, was given a four-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler for the rape and assault causing harm of a 25-year-old woman in the garden of a house in April 2002.

A man who fired five times at a patrol car with a shotgun before pointing it directly at a plain clothes garda has been jailed for four years.

A 23-year-old Dublin man was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court today for the manslaughter of another man in 1999.

The jury in the trial of a man for the murder of a Galway schoolgirl has

The jury has retired to consider their verdict in the trial of a 29-year-old man charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count of murder in Co Sligo two years ago.