A Dublin man who tried to set fire to his rented flat on Halloween night by igniting aerosol cans has received a suspended sentence today.

Police are pursuing new leads in the Ian Watkins child sex abuse case after a flurry of calls triggered by an appeal for unknown victims to come forward.

Peaches Geldof has taken to Twitter to apologise for tweeting the names of the two mothers whose babies were involved in abuse by disgraced rock star Ian Watkins.

A Dublin man who admitted trying to set fire to his rented flat on Halloween night while a four-year-old relative was sleeping in one of the bedrooms is due to be sentenced today.

Detectives investigating comments by Peaches Geldof on the victims paedophile rock star Ian Watkins have confirmed they are in talks with prosecutors.

Detectives investigating reports that Peaches Geldof named the two mothers whose babies were involved in abuse by disgraced rock star Ian Watkins have confirmed they are in talks with prosecutors.

A Dublin man has admitted trying to set fire to his rented flat on Halloween night while a four-year-old relative was sleeping in one of the bedrooms.

Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins is to appear before magistrates charged with child sex offences, police have said.

THE John Murphy trained Top Spin topped proceedings at the Tattersalls July Sale yesterday.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

I WISH to respond to the letter headlined ‘We may be a province once again’ from Brian Flanagan (Irish Examiner, August 18).

The Brian Meehan-trained Leitrim House put himself in line for the Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas when running out a three-and-a-half-length winner of the Group Three Rock Of Gibraltar EBF Tetrarch Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

THE Brian Meehan-trained Leitrim House put himself in line for the Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas when running out a three-and-a-half-length winner of the Group Three Rock Of Gibraltar EBF Tetrarch Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

The Brian Meehan-trained Leitrim House put himself in line for the Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas when running out a three-and-a-half-length winner of the Group Three Rock Of Gibraltar EBF Tetrarch Stakes at the Curragh today.

IN your edition of March 27, you published a news agency report which claimed that President Prodi told reporters on Wednesday last that Europeans should abandon NATO. This is not true and the story was later corrected

GARDAÍ in Kerry are investigating allegations that four teenagers used a home computer and colour printer to forge €5,000 in €50 notes.

Peter Doyle (The Irish Examiner, July 22) likened the appointment of the European Commission to the way President Bush selects his cabinet and other high ranking officers in the US administration.

YOUR correspondent John Paul O'Driscoll (Irish Examiner, July 19) describes the European Council as an unelected body.