Paul Williams was surprised to hear his name brought up in a Dáil debate about the quashing of penalty points. This was in late 2013, the Disclosures Tribunal heard yesterday.

Nhat Nguyen (17) is already a two-time Irish senior badminton champion and, though still in school, plays for a professional team in Germany. He lives in Clare Hall, Dublin and trains at the National Badminton Centre in Marino. In 2016 he was European U17 champion and also won bronze in the doubles. This year he reached the quarter-finals of the World Junior Championships.

Elevate: Raise or lift (something) to a higher position.

The decision to indefinitely delay the publication of the report into whether the former Garda commissioner is treating the electorate with disrespect, writes Michael Clifford

The distraught mother of Gary Douch, brutally killed in a preventable tragedy in Mountjoy Prison, has slammed the Department of Justice for failing to pay the barrister who conducted the inquiry into her son’s death for almost four years.

JUST when you thought it was safe to go out, the whole shebang has caught fire again.

THE Labour Party was not informed about concerns of phone recording at Garda stations until the Cabinet met on Tuesday morning, according to one of its ministers, Pat Rabbitte.

WHAT a day! We all know the old adage that a week is a long time in politics — sometimes it seems a day can be even longer.

A teenager has described how he took the controls of a light plane for more than half an hour after the pilot passed out during a joy flight over rural Australia.

A FORMER, well-paid HSE employee, Mia became a prostitute on Dublin’s Burlington Road, selling herself for €40 to feed a drug habit.

RTÉ journalist Paul Reynolds has received an apology from the Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter yesterday apologised for “unfair and inaccurate” comments he made about journalist Paul Reynolds.

A man appeared in court tonight charged in connection with the fatal shooting of two men in Dublin last Sunday.

RTÉ’S crime correspondent Paul Reynolds has been awarded €60,000 in damages after winning a libel action against the head of the Garda Representative Association, PJ Stone, and the GRA’s official magazine, Garda Review.

A judge in Cork District Court today indicated that he was most likely to dismiss hundreds of drink driving cases next week if they were more than four years old.

BT chalked up a further milestone today in its bid to focus on new wave technologies with news of a record quarter for broadband connections in the UK.

BT today mapped out plans to transform its network in a move that could help the telecoms group achieve cost savings of up to £1bn (€1.5bn) a year.

I have two questions for Minister McDowell:

A policeman and a gunman were killed and students at four schools were temporarily locked in their classrooms today during a shoot-out near Brisbane.

British protesters were today considering whether to end their action against fuel prices after failing to attract country-wide support.