The absence of a question about the Berlin blockade was something that may have upset many Junior Certificate students who took yesterday afternoon’s higher level paper.

Leaving Certificate French exams were on the morning timetable for students yesterday and featured many topical issues.

A Tipperary father-of-one has been found guilty of murdering his ‘best friend’ and neighbour while he slept, because he believed he ‘grassed him up’.

The barrister of a Tipperary man accused of murder has described his client’s prosecution as "a good old-fashioned fit up" by Clonmel gardaí.

The mother of a Tipperary murder and arson victim listened yesterday in court to a recording of dialogue at the crime scene during the hours of the killing and fire.