Pints were flowing in exchange for turf as a rural pub owner attempted to combat austerity.

QUADRUPLETS Samantha, Michael, Nicola and Amanda Morris are getting ready to head off to the TwinFest Ireland at Keash, Ballymote, Co Sligo, next Saturday.

CORK twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf will be among a crowd of “multiples” attending this year’s Twinfest in Sligo later this month.

Two young married men who beat up a staff nurse at Beaumont Hospital during a dispute with one of their relatives have each received 18 months in jail with the last six months suspended.

Light heavyweight prospect Tommy McCarthy is two bouts away from claiming an Irish title at the National Youth Championships just a few weeks after going all the way in the Ulster Senior Championships.

IRISH AMATEUR boxing president Dominic O’Rourke believes the future stars of Irish boxing will be on display at the National Intermediate Championships which glove off at the National Stadium tonight.

A man who took €71,000 from the back an unlocked ATM machine has been given a three years sentence by Judge Patrick McCarten at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

DAVID BARRETT (Rylane) bids to emulate older brother Seanie by winning the light welterweight title at the Irish intermediate boxing championship finals at the National Stadium tonight.

ALL four Irish boxers won medals at a Six Nations junior tournament in Rome last weekend.

A 33-year-old man had a murder charge against him dropped today at the Central Criminal Court.

Five Travellers accused of the murder of their cousin at a family funeral have been found not guilty at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of five men accused of murdering a man at a Traveller funeral will spend tonight in a hotel and will tomorrow morning resume their deliberations at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of five men accused of murdering a man at a funeral is being charged by the trial judge at the Central Criminal Court.

A witness has told a jury that gardaí allowed him "drive into an ambush" of an assembled crowd of up to150 people.

A murder trial of five men accused of killing a man at family funeral has heard that a feud allegedly existed between two Traveller families after a bare knuckle fight in London 15 years ago.

The nephew of a man murdered at a funeral in Sligo has told a jury that the 150-strong crowd that allegedly surrounded him and his father outside a cemetery was "well-organised. Every man in the crowd knew exactly what to do."

The nephew of a man murdered at a funeral in Sligo has told a jury that his accused cousin allegedly shouted to the assembled crowd: "Shoot them, kill them, shoot them".

The trial of a Traveller shot at the funeral of his uncle has heard that a gunman attempted to kill another member of the Ward family on the same day.

A Traveller who was murdered at his uncle’s funeral was "shot in the back of his chest" as he tried to run away, a trial heard today at the Central Criminal Court.

THE dissident republican at the centre of an alleged IRA kidnap plot yesterday stormed out of a courtroom where he faced a threat-to-kill charge.

The dissident republican at the centre of an alleged IRA kidnap plot today stormed out of a courtroom where he faced a threat-to-kill charge.

Gardaí in Galway are appealing for help in tracing a missing 20-year-old man.