A sum of €2,000 in cash that was robbed from a bookmakers in Cork more than seven years ago was finally returned to the owners by order of a court yesterday.

Boredom and curiosity prompted a middle-aged Corkman to go online and access child pornography but yesterday it emerged his actions had devastating consequences for him.

TWO men who spent the past week in jail for a serious assault on a retired schoolteacher were released yesterday.

A RETIRED schoolteacher was given a bad beating by two teenagers armed with wheel-braces as he sat in his car.

DUBLIN actress Sarah Bolger has been signed up to star in a new Hollywood movie based on an extraordinary love story which began at a Nazi concentration camp.