A judge has criticised the State for not charging a man driving at 172km/h with dangerous driving.

Senior US politicians have contacted clothing retailer Urban Outfitters over a fashion range which plays on the stereotype of the ‘drunken Irish’.

A COUNTY council was served with a book of evidence yesterday ahead of the trial into the deaths of two firemen in a blaze at a disused factory four years ago.

The rapist at the centre of the "C Case" in the 1990's has been jailed for 21 years by Mr Justice George Birmingham for raping an 86-year-old woman in her home last year.

A man was being quizzed by gardaí tonight after a passenger ferry was stolen off the north-west coast.