Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has denied he once described pilots as "overpaid underworked peacocks".

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today rejected an appeal brought by Co Donegal man against his conviction for the murder of his estranged wife, whose remains he then burnt at the back of the family home.

A chartered accountant and son of the former Supreme Court judge Hugh O'Flaherty was given "substantial damges" after settlement was reached in the High Court today in a libel action he took against The Sunday Tribune newspaper.