A court has heard that two Dublin men ran an online drug dealing network from a business premises in the city.

The stories of Irishmen who served in WWII are deeply moving says Geoffrey Roberts

The defence opened and closed its case yesterday morning on the 39th day of Graham Dwyer’s murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.

ormer Fianna Fáil councillor and solicitor Gary O’Flynn is to be sentenced in April after confessing to charges of soliciting someone to murder three people — a garda fraud squad, a Revenue Commissioner, and an accountant.

A father of five who was €10,000 in arrears on his mortgage and struggling to feed his children grew cannabis to raise money to relieve the financial pressure he was under, a judge was told yesterday.

A convicted rapist who was due to be sentenced yesterday for terrifying a woman and her elderly mother in a knifepoint hijacking at a shopping-centre car park in Cork died on Friday.

The three Englishmen who were on trial in the biggest drugs crime in the history of the State were all convicted by a jury today after a day and a half of deliberations.

SOCCER legend Paul McGrath has been appointed director of football at Waterford United. He joins player/manager Alan Reynolds in a new management team for next season.

AFTER wins in Belfast and Cardiff over the past two weekends, Cork’s Jamie McCarthy will be oozing confidence when he travels to Lisbon for Sunday’s junior international cross-country race.

Waterford United have stripped manager Jimmy McGeogh of his sole responsibility for selecting the team.