A driver who left his dying friend in a car which he crashed after consuming up to eight drinks has been jailed for four years by Judge Frank O'Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE Boy Scouts of America have been slapped with two lawsuits demanding the organisation cover the $14 million (€11.25m) it cost to fight a June 2002 blaze it claims scouts started in Wyoming.

THE federal government and the state of Utah sued the Boy Scouts of America for nearly £8 million to recover the costs of a 2002 fire at a Scout camp.