The Dog Days are over to quote Florence and the Machine (who will be at Electric Picnic this year, as will I - of which more next week).

The Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) has issued several safety recommendations in relation to a popular traditional sailing boat following a fatal capsizing incident off Cork.

Irish shoppers hoping to quaff some of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s wine from their French vineyard will be disappointed as limited availability means it will only be sold in British branches of M&S for now.

A retired public school teacher from Oxfordshire died after a summer sailing trip turned to disaster in West Cork.

Manager Arsene Wenger would not have walked out on Arsenal if they had lost the FA Cup final last season, and is determined to do all he can to deliver another open-top bus parade around Islington in the summer.

Tributes were paid to a 66-year-old sailor "who died doing what he loved best", at his funeral in Schull, West Cork yesterday. Douglas Perrin died after his boat capsized at the mouth of Schull Harbour last Wednesday. His body was recovered by rescue services the following morning.

Officials from the Marine Casualty Investigation Board arrived in West Cork to begin their probe into the sailing tragedy that took the life of a 66-year-old English man and forced his two elderly friends to swim a kilometre to shore.

The three sailors in their 60s and 70s were clinging to the side of their boat when they saw an island come into view.

The 66-year-old British man who died when his 5.5m yacht capsized off the West Cork coast kept a holiday home and mooring in the wider Schull area.

Former Dublin Judge Heather Perrin who is serving a prison sentence for deception of an elderly client, has been given a further two-year jail term for false accounting.

A former district court judge serving a prison sentence for deception will be sentenced in March after pleading guilty to a further charge of false accounting.

A former District Court judge serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence for deception has pleaded guilty to a new charge.

A former judge has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for attempting to deceive her elderly friend out of half of his estate while he was a client of her solicitors firm.

Heather Perrin will be entitled to a judicial pension, despite her conviction and jail sentence.

Thomas and Ada Davis decided to make their wills with Heather Perrin before she was officially made a judge.

A sad day for one family proves everyone is equal before the law, writes Michael Clifford

Disgraced former judge Heather Perrin will be entitled to collect a pension from her time on the bench.

A former District Court judge has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison today after being convicted of deception.

A court has heard ex-District Court judge Heather Perrin is recovering from a life-threatening soft tissue infection in her leg.

A judge found guilty of attempting to deceive an elderly friend out of half his estate is to resign.

A judge found guilty of attempting to deceive an elderly friend out of half his estate is to resign.

A district court judge has been convicted of attempting to deceive her elderly friend out of half of his estate while he was a client of her solicitors’ firm.

A District Court judge has been convicted of attempting to deceive her elderly friend out of half of his estate while he was a client of her solicitors firm.

The jury has been sent home overnight having failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a District Court judge accused of deception.

The former secretary of a district court judge accused of trying to dupe a friend out of half his estate has denied being told what to say by the accused.

The defence has begun calling evidence in the trial of a District Court Judge accused of deceiving an elderly man.

A jury has heard today that a District Court judge Heather Perrin was visibly upset when gardaí informed her last July that she was to be charged with deception.

A jury has heard a District Court judge absolutely denied to gardai that she had deceived a pensioner into leaving half his estate to her children.

The trial of a District Court judge accused of attempting to deceive an elderly man out of half his estate has heard that the alleged victim is not suffering from any memory problems.

A District Court judge accused of attempting to deceive her friend out of half his estate initially claimed it was a mistake by her secretary, a court has heard.

The alleged victim of a district court judge accused of deception has said he never consented to leaving half of his estate to her children

An elderly man who was allegedly deceived by his solicitor into leaving half his estate to her children is being cross examined before a jury.

A district court judge has gone on trial accused of trying to deceive an elderly man into leaving half his estate to her children.

A District Court judge has gone on trial accused of deceiving an elderly man into bequeathing half of his estate to her children.

A jury in the trial of a former solicitor accused of deception have been discharged because of a legal issue.

A former solicitor has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to alleged deception.

A District Court judge claimed she was not guilty today when charged by fraud squad detectives with false accounting and theft.

Syrian forces murdered journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill “any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil”, it emerged last night.

A district court judge is to stand trial next November for allegedly deceiving an elderly couple into putting her children into their will.

A garda and HSE probe is underway into the circumstances in which 23 non-nationals including two pregnant 15-year-old girls are allegedly sharing a house in west Dublin, a court has heard today.

A 16-year-old boy, who threatened to wreck a woman's home, believing she had his dogs impounded by the council, has been ordered to write a letter of apology and remanded on continuing bail pending sentence.

A 14-year-old boy has been remanded on continuing bail pending sentence for threatening to burn down a woman's home after she complained that youths from a Health Service Executive care centre attacked her son.

A teenager appeared in court today charged with taking part in a burglary in Dublin where an elderly woman was traumatised and suffered a broken finger when an engagement ring was forcibly taken from her.

A youth who nearly ran over three children while doing 80kph on a scrambler motorcycle has been remanded on bail pending sentence.