Private solicitors working for the Director of Public Prosecutions were paid almost €6.5m last year.

An autistic Galway man who said he was bullied by his "serious criminal uncle" into stealing €17,000 cash from employers has been given a suspended sentence by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Kelly Noble trial which lasted for just over two and a half weeks at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin revealed a story of two very troubled young women who’s path’s crossed on a summer’s evening in June, producing fatal consequences.