A young rugby player who assaulted the 14-year-old son of a garda has been ordered to carry out 25 hours community service in lieu of three months imprisonment.

The US Board of Immigration Appeals has ruled that Sean Kelly (known as Sean O'Cealleagh), convicted of aiding in the 1988 killings of two British soldiers in the North, can be deported.

A Los Angeles judge has ruled against the US government, saying a barman convicted over the murders of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland committed a “purely political” crime and should not be deported.

A Los Angeles immigration judge cleared the court of the public and press at the request of a US prosecutor seeking the deportation of an Irishman convicted over the 1988 murders of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland.