The owner of the former "La Stampa" restaurant in Dublin's Dawson Street, Louis Murray, was "terrified and confused" to find a bank had appointed a receiver to sell the asset just days after he believed he had entered into an agreement for the consensual sale of the property, the High Court heard.

Two Artane drug addicts who subjected a teenager to a terrifying ordeal because they mistakenly believed there might be drugs in his house have been given four year sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Quinn-Financial Services has deployed advanced Internet Protocol (IP) communications solutions to merge its voice and data networks.