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Prominent republican Thomas “Slab” Murphy had nothing to do with cattle farming, according to his lawyers in an appeal against conviction for evading tax on profits from a farming business.

Prominent republican Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy was found guilty of evading tax his brother had already paid, his lawyers have submitted to the Court of Appeal.

Apple has received planning permission for an expansion at its European head office in Cork that is due to provide an additional 1,000 jobs.

The planned timeline for Apple delivering an additional 1,000 jobs for Cork has been delayed.

The case against Thomas “Slab” Murphy is based on “utterly ludicrous” documentation which attempts to link the prominent republican to a non-existent farming income, his defence barrister has said.

The trial of prominent republican Thomas 'Slab' Murphy for alleged tax evasion has heard that in October 2004 a man of the same name supplied cattle worth €15,000 to a meat factory for slaughter.

A cyclist is to contest a charge of careless driving on a bicycle on New Year’s eve 2013.

A district court judge said yesterday that a case of a man charged with careless driving a bicycle is the first such case he has come across in the courts.

Tommy Barker visits a 1970s bungalow near Clonakilty that has been given a tasteful rebuild, complete with high-spec insulation and cutting-edge green building techniques.

State documents show the Government was uncertain on how to prosecute an Irish soldier accused of the murder of three of his colleagues in Lebanon in 1982.

The case against prominent republican Thomas “Slab” Murphy, who is being prosecuted on tax charges, has been put back until March next year.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times phoned the emergency service hours before the stabbing as he had concerns for her welfare.

A challenge brought by prominent republican Thomas 'Slab' Murphy to a ruling that tax charges against him should be dealt with by the non-jury Special Criminal Court rather than the ordinary courts may be heard by the Supreme Court before Christmas.

Prominent republican Thomas “Slab” Murphy has lodged a Supreme Court challenge to a ruling that tax charges against him should be dealt with by the non-jury Special Criminal Court rather than the ordinary courts.

A 22-year-old Dublin man has been given a five-year suspended sentence for the assault of his father which left him brain damaged and wheelchair-bound.

A NEW technique to combat oesophageal cancer is being pioneered in this country by a top surgeon at Cork’s Mercy University Hospital.

Three of the six men on trial on charges arising out of a series of incidents culminating in the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May were found not guilty this afternoon and walked free from the case.

DETAILED evidence was given in a trial yesterday of what was seen in the seconds before two cars crashed, resulting in the deaths of two teenagers.

A TRIAL related to the crashing of two cars that resulted in the deaths of two teenagers will continue on Monday following legal argument in the absence of the jury.

A TEENAGER who claimed attackers danced on his head, threw him into the boot of a car and drove him to a cemetery, denied yesterday he would say anything in support of his own gang to get other men convicted.

A COMPLICATED trial of six men facing different charges arising out of a series of incidents culminating in the road deaths of two teenagers in Knocknaheeny, Cork, last May has been listed for trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on November 23.

AN €89.9 million summary judgment order entered against a Laois businessman in favour of Anglo Irish Bank is believed to be the largest judgment against an individual by the Commercial Court.

CONVICTED rapist Larry Murphy made a complaint to gardaí within an hour of his controversial release from prison over alleged harassment by the media.

The partner of convicted rapist Larry Murphy's brother says she just wants her family to be left in peace.

THREE more men were charged yesterday with false imprisonment arising from a Garda investigation into a car crash which claimed the lives of two teenagers in Cork city last May.

A FORMER Irish solider who killed three of his colleagues while on duty in the Lebanon in 1982 has been released from prison in Antrim.

Former North Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan and High Court judge Mr Justice Treacy have been appointed as Visiting Professors at the University of Ulster’s School of Law, it was announced today.

THE recent cabinet decision to abolish the Irish language requirement for the Law Society and the King’s Inns was disappointing.

A HOST of ceremonies took place north and south yesterday to remember soldiers who had died during battle and while on duty.

THE former soldier convicted of murdering three of his colleagues is expected to apply for release following his transfer to the North, which was announced yesterday.

“CRACKED” was how Michael McAleavey described his state of mind when he shot down three of his Army colleagues in a hail of bullets.

Reports that a triple-killer may be extradited from a Dublin prison to the North is disturbing relatives of his victims, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said tonight.

PRISON chiefs have agreed to transfer an Irish soldier who murdered three colleagues back to a jail in the North.

Prison chiefs have agreed to transfer an Irish soldier who murdered three colleagues back to a jail in the North, it emerged today.

A man witnessed flashes of light and a car screeching away as a father-of-ten was gunned down on a Dublin street corner, an inquest heard today.

The scene of a crash in which a father-of-two and a teenager lost their lives was like a bomb site, an inquest heard tonight.

A BUSINESSMAN whose home and offices were raided by police in connection with an investigation into an IRA crime empire admitted links with the family of an alleged IRA godfather yesterday.

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A Dublin man with ten previous criminal convictions was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter, at the Central Criminal Court today.

IN 1997, in a book called Salt of the Earth, the new Pope wrote: “I am of the opinion that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it.