A man who was wrongfully arrested the same night his fiancée was savagely beaten by another man in a random street attack has been awarded more than €1.1m by a High Court jury.

A garda sergeant told the High Court officers did their "very best with good intent" for a woman who had been viciously beaten although, initially, they had not ruled out her fiancée as a person of interest in the investigation.

A garda sergeant has told the High Court when she told a man being arrested "you may hit your girlfriend, but you won't hit me", it was "an off-the-cuff remark and I meant nothing by it".

A garda sergeant has told the High Court she had to pepper spray a man who is suing for wrongful arrest because he was shouting aggressively and was intimidating.

A garda sergeant told a man who had just been pepper-sprayed and arrested "you may hit your girlfriend but you won't hit me", the High Court has heard.

Gerald Jennings, a property manager from Carlow Town, claims he was arrested because gardaí wrongly believed he had carried out a savage street assault on his fiancée, beautician Martha Kowalczyk.

A 13-year old boy who had sued over the circumstances of his birth at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin has settled his High Court case for €7.25million.

A round-up of the counts in Munster.

Derby substitute Jack Marriott scored twice to help fire his side into the Sky Bet Championship play-off final after a 4-2 victory at Leeds.

Ireland U20s coach Noel McNamara insists his full focus is on the upcoming Junior World Cup despite suggestions that he could be a possible candidate for a role with Munster under Johann van Graan.

Goals from Karl Sheppard and Graham Cummins made it two from two under interim manager John Cotter for Cork City.

John Cotter’s tenure as Cork City interim manager got off to a winning start as Conor McCarthy’s first-half goal was the difference at Dalymount Park tonight.

Cork City’s woes continued as a 76th-minute equaliser from captain Keith Cowan secured a draw for Finn Harps at Turner’s Cross last night.

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Cork City retained the Munster Senior Cup for the third year on the spin as goals from Darragh Rainsford, Dan Smith and Liam Nash saw off a battling Midleton side in last night’s final at Turners Cross.

The Ireland Women's worst Six Nations finish since 2006 was confirmed by a poor 24-5 defeat to a young Wales side who were clinical with their scoring opportunities as they concluded the Championship on a real high at Cardiff Arms Park.

Johann van Graan’s glass remained half-full as he argued Munster are still very much in Guinness PRO14 title contention despite defeat to the Scarlets in Llanelli.

Christopher Phillips (78) was one of seven people injured in the collision at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Clondalkin on June 25 last.

What do you give the woman who has everything? If that woman is Queen Elizabeth II then anything involving horses would be the best bet, writes Brendan O'Brien

A much-changed Cork City got back to winning ways in the league as they eased past a relegation-threatened Limerick in last night’s SSE Airtricity League Premier Division Munster derby at Turner’s Cross.

Under-18s who feel they’re in the wrong body may soon be able to legally change their gender with greater ease, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

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Manchester United’s troubled International Champions Cup campaign suffered another blow, with a 4-1 defeat to Premier League rivals, Liverpool, in Michigan on Saturday night.

Ulster 35 Ospreys 17: So after a season where more headlines were made off the pitch rather than on it, Ulster, the 1999 Heineken Cup kingpins and forerunners of Ireland’s glorious history in the competition, will still have a place at the top table of European rugby next season.

Gsoc has been denied access to confidential records in the Garda’s Security & Intelligence Section in relation to Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot Garda Tony Golden dead and almost killed his estranged partner Siobhan Phillips in October 2015.

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Ireland 35 Wales 12: Adam Griggs sang the praises of the “immense” Claire Molloy, after she secured a brace of tries in Ireland’s bonus-point victory over Wales in the Women’s Six Nations Championship at Donnybrook yesterday.

Sam Davies held his nerve to hammer home a 79th minute conversion of replacement hooker Ifan Phillips' try to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat for the Ospreys against the Cheetahs.

He may have lost Leroy Sane to injury and been priced out of his quest for Riyad Mahrez but if that represented a bad week for Pep Guardiola in his Manchester City wonderland, normal service was quickly resumed on the field last night.

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Crash investigators in England are trying to piece together what caused a collision which killed six - as one of the victims was named as a loving father.

Scotland began life after Gordon Strachan with a friendly defeat by Holland at Pittodrie after Memphis Depay netted a controversial winner.

Connacht 15 Worcester Warriors 8: You suspect the more Kieran Keane settles into life in Galway the more he appreciates exactly what his predecessor Pat Lam achieved, not just with limited resources but the manner in which he got them to play in the difficult climatic conditions.

Scotland remain in the hunt for a World Cup qualification play-off spot.

Cork City manager John Caulfield hopes that last night’s FAI Cup second round blowout against Athlone Town at Turner’s Cross will provide confidence to the team as they seek to clinch the league title.

The holders and league champions-elect Cork City brushed aside the token challenge of Athlone Town to reach the last eight of the Irish Daily Mail sponsored FAI Cup at Turner’s Cross tonight.

Wales suffered a second Women's Rugby World Cup defeat as Canada won a bruising contest 15-0 at Billings Park in Dublin.

An Irish start-up aims for world sales with a solution for flat pack furniture, writes Trish Dromey

Traumatised souls. Murderous housewives. Wise-cracking hitmen. Bloody revenge. It’s all there in this excellent collection of short stories from Irish crime writers.

Nine executions in Ohio, including that of a child killer, have been delayed due to a court fight over the constitutionality of the state’s lethal injection process.

Gardaí who dealt with Adrian Crevan Mackin in the months before he murdered Garda Tony Golden are to be investigated on their knowledge of the risk he presented and whether they shielded him from prosecution.

The programme examined events in the months leading up to the murder of the garda and the maiming of Ms Phillips in October 2015.

Detectives in the UK are hunting a "particularly cruel" burglar who drowned a seven-month-old puppy in the bath during a break-in.