THERE they sat, with their black and white repeal T-shirts clearly visible under their jackets.

A raft of special advisers are being drafted in by new ministers to stave off attack from opposition TDs and to media-manage their images.

Jules Thomas, the partner of Ian Bailey, is to press ahead with her compensation claim against the State despite Mr Bailey losing his marathon case on Monday.

A former priest awaiting trial on historic child sex abuse charges does not have the right to anonymity, a judge held today.

A legal expert has said the Justice Minister revealing that TD Mick Wallace received a caution for using his mobile phone while driving, raises a number of privacy and data protection issues.

Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in 1970.

Three TDs turned up in the High Court yesterday to support a man’s challenge to the State paying promissory notes for over €31bn in aid of Irish financial institutions.

Australia forward Tony Williams has been charged with a high tackle on England second rower Ben Westwood.

A PATHOLOGIST has been unable to determine how a senior Tory whose body was found in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet died, an inquest heard yesterday.

New Zealand have lost a fourth member of their initial 43-strong train-on squad for the Four Nations Series.

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THE family of assault victim David Keohane are hoping to fly him home from Australia for treatment in Cork within the next week.