A young Co Limerick GAA star has come out of a week-long coma after a horrific roof top fall at the family farm.

THE wife of a former garda superintendent whose chances of surviving cancer were significantly reduced by the actions of his doctor has spoken for the first time about the trauma of his illness, his death and their battle to extract the truth from their GP.

THE father of a young woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend five years ago was found dead in his home late on Tuesday.

A SENIOR garda has won his appeal against a district court judge’s decision to hold him in contempt of court.

A woman whose then boyfriend was storing €5m worth of heroin in their home has been given a four-year suspended sentence for allowing him to hide the drugs there.

A man who stored €5m worth of heroin in the home he shared with his then girlfriend has been given a 10-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A couple who had €5m worth of heroin in their home have had their sentence adjourned by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

VICTIMS of crime and families who have lost loved ones through murder have been invited to attend a special memorial Mass in Cork.

A DECISION is expected shortly from the DPP on a request by gardaí for a judicial review of a judge’s decision to hold a garda inspector in contempt.

IT should have been one of the proudest days of his life.

A MAN whose 19-year-old daughter was murdered last year has criticised the Victim Impact Statement process as “disgraceful” and said there was too much consideration for the perpetrators of violent crime.

“IT does stick in your head, to go in and open a coffin and look at your beautiful daughter in absolute bits.”

THE conviction of Joe O’Reilly for the brutal murder of his wife has given new hope to the relatives of those whose killers have never been jailed.

As Joe O’Reilly woke up on the first morning of a life sentence in Mountjoy prison the families of those whose killers have never been caught were given new hope.

THE father of murdered teenager Sheola Keaney will attend a graveside ceremony in Cobh in three weeks to mark the first anniversary of her death.

Since the start of 2006, 67 (check) people have met violent deaths — more than a killing every week.

A sentence of life imprisonment was imposed today on the man who murdered his teenaged ex-girlfriend in Cobh last July.

THE relief on Peter Keaney’s face was striking.

The man accused of murdering his teenaged ex-girlfriend pleaded guilty to the charge of murder today.

Senior prosecuting counsel Patrick McCarthy yesterday opened the case against Thomas Kennedy, who is accused of the murder of Sheola Keaney earlier this year in Cobh, writes Paul Kelly.

The murder trial of Sheola Keaney's ex-boyfriend opened at the Central Criminal Court in Cork today where the 21-year-old man denies murdering his ex-girlfriend in Cobh last July.

A date has been set for the trial of a 21-year-old man charged with murder of 19-year-old Cobh girl Sheola Keaney.

The ex-boyfriend of a murdered teenage waitress will be sent for trial today at the Central Criminal Court, charged with her murder.

Calls have been made to speed up plans for a new prison for Spike Island following a series of chronic overcrowding problems and a number of violent incidents in Cork and Dublin prisons in recent days.

The man accused of the murder of Sheola Keaney was today further remanded in custody.

A man appeared before a Cork court tonight charged with the murder of 19-year-old Sheola Keaney.

WITH Monday’s deadline looming for tax defaulters, it is not surprising to learn people are still coming out of the woodwork to make a clean breast of their cheating past.

HAVING Bertie Ahern sitting at the counter drinking Bass or having the Taoiseach’s constituency office across the road from his pub, didn’t deter Thomas Kennedy from keeping more than €1 million salted away from the taxman’s greedy grasp.