In advance of his visit to Kinsale, author Donal Ryan tells Des O’Driscoll about some of his favourite music, books and TV shows through the decades.

The manager of a painting and decorating shop who was caught stealing €440 from his company after it installed a secret CCTV system has been jailed for 21 months.

Moved by their plight, they mobilised an army of volunteers. And tears of joy flowed yesterday as the results of their incredible DIY SOS-style makeover of a special school were unveiled.

A 24-year-old motorcyclist was almost five times over the legal limit when he crashed and died early on Christmas morning.

Applegreen, the forecourt fuels and food retailer, said it sees no reason to curtail expansion plans because of Brexit, as it plans to open up to 50 new sites in Ireland, the UK and the US this year.

Former team-mate Len Gaynor has paid tribute to the memory of the late Tipperary hurling legend Mick Roche, whose death was announced yesterday at the age of 73.

A Dublin woman, who tore clumps of hair from a shop worker’s head during a vicious attack, has been given a three-month suspended sentence.

Eoghan Cormican looks at the upcoming games and gives his verdict.

The literary stars came out last night for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in Dublin.

The shortlists for “the biggest celebration of Irish writing” was announced yesterday.

Today’s generation of young Irish people are more confident than ever and are making their mark in cities all over the world. We take a look at some of our most talented emigrants ...

A student who caused a taxi driver to crash his car by choking him from the back seat has avoided jail after agreeing to pay €8,000 in compensation.

WHEN, in 2011, the RTÉ journalist Kathleen McMahon accepted a €600,000 advance for her debut novel, there was excitement throughout the organisation.

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A Dublin man has been jailed for 10 years after he pleaded guilty to firearms and drug offences.

AIB has told the Commercial Court it is not contending that businessman Philip Lynch and his family are liable for all of the AIB debts of developer Gerry Conlan arising from a mortgage related to a €25 million land deal in Waterford.

WELL-KNOWN businessman Philip Lynch, his wife Eileen and their four children are suing AIB and two firms of solicitors in a bid to stop the bank pursuing them individually over unpaid loans of €25.3 million advanced to buy lands in Waterford for development.

A FARMER was sentenced to jail while his son and nephew got fully suspended sentences in a case where a man died after being assaulted in a long-running dispute over land boundaries.

CLAIMS by convicted murderers Peter Whelan and Paul Lynch that the mandatory life term for murder breaches their rights under the Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights were unanimously dismissed by the Supreme Court yesterday.

A Tallaght man who viciously raped, beat and threatened to kill a woman he abducted from a busy road has received an eight-year sentence with one suspended.

A RECENT visit to the magnificent Dingle Peninsula, on a day when there was a heavy swell in the Atlantic, illustrated yet again the sheer power of the waves that crashed into the jagged coastline.

THE state is entitled, both under the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to enact laws stipulating a mandatory life sentence for the crime of murder, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

TWO convicted murderers are challenging the mandatory life sentence claiming it excludes a discretionary role for judges in recommending a minimum jail sentence.

THANKS for your coverage (April 8) of the release of Shell to Sea protester Maura Harrington from Mountjoy jail.

HOW can the Government justify the levies, redundancies, pay and spending cuts to claw back a few billion, while giving away state property worth over €€5 trillion?

A former Scottish cocaine addict who punched a DART commuter has been given a two-and-a-half-year sentence and banned from re-entering Ireland for a further seven years after his release.

ENERGY Minister Eamon Ryan’s figures quoted in your article headlined ‘Corrib gas field worth €9.5bn’ (October 30) raise some serious questions.

IN a leading question to Eamon Ryan (August 4), T Smyth expects the Corrib Gas field to “secure our future” in the face of rising energy costs.

WE’RE told by Sean Ó Neachtain MEP (Letters, May 5) that we must look carefully at the facts of the Lisbon Treaty.

PAUL LYNCH (Letters, April 21) is clutching at straws in his attempt to attack nuclear power.

YOUR columnist Matt Cooper (March 28) suggested that nuclear power contributes nothing to global warming.

IN his attempted defence of Shell’s Corrib gas project in Co Mayo (Letters, December 13), Brendan Cafferty has unwittingly highlighted some of its fundamental problems.

PAUL LYNCH (Letters, November 28) seems to have got his facts very wrong in relation to the safety of the Corrib gas pipeline.

IN his letter headlined ‘Priests challenged on Erris pipeline stance’ (November 6), Brendan Cafferty writes that the independent Advantica report said the original pipeline was safe.

IN his letter headlined ‘Priests challenged on Erris pipeline stance’ (November 6), Brendan Cafferty writes that the independent Advantica report said that the original pipeline was safe.

FOSSIL fuel exploration, refinement and use causes ecological destruction and supports our most dangerous and anti-social modes of transport.

GARDAÍ have swapped speed cameras for the movie-making kind to help a group of young people shoot their own educational film.

THE second of two convicted murderers began his legal High Court action yesterday against the Minister for Justice challenging the constitutionality of this country’s mandatory life sentence regime.

A REPORT of the investigation into the confession of drug addict Dean Lyons for a murder he did not commit is on schedule for delivery to Justice Minister Michael McDowell next month.

TEN students have become overnight stars of the screen as part of a novel initiative to highlight the dangers of drug abuse.

A SHORT film made by a cast and crew of Co Waterford teenagers to promote drugs awareness was launched in the Arts Centre in Dungarvan last night.

Heiton chief executive Leo Martin and fellow directors Peter Byers, Paul Lynch and Eddie Kelly have exercised options over shares in the builders merchants and DIY group.