A 27-year-old man made no reply when he was charged with the murder of a man whose burned remains were found in the Phoenix Park.

The Junctions traditional music gigs are streamlined this year, but, one hopes, sustainable. They fill a gap in Cork’s music scene.

A property tycoon who vanished for eight months has appeared in court charged with making false allegations he had been kidnapped and held hostage.

Catherine Vallely, who found missing developer Kevin McGeever on a Leitrim road, has said she continues to be amazed by the details of his disappearance ruse.

A wealthy businessman found wandering a lonely border road in a barefoot and dishevelled condition last Tuesday is to face formal questioning by gardaí later this week about his mysterious disappearance.

Gardaí are desperately trying to build up a picture of the gang suspected of kidnapping businessman Kevin Michael McGeever.

The woman who found missing property developer Kevin Michael McGeever said he was so thin and bearded that he reminded her of a member of an Indian caste.

Multimillionaire landlords Brendan and Asta Kelly, who were evicted from their Killiney home last April, have “gone to ground,” a judge was told yesterday.

A group of investors are to ask the High Court for an order allowing them to redeem their €832,000 loan on lands in Co Tipperary, over which Nama has appointed areceiver.

A Cork man was involved in a money laundering operation involving the proceeds of the 2004 Northern Bank robbery on behalf of the IRA, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told today.

Two Cork men arrested as part of the garda investigation into the Northern Bank raid in Belfast in which £26.5m (€29.4m) was stolen in December 2004 were charged with IRA membership at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

ASSETS worth £700,000 (€1.02 million) belonging to two alleged fuel smugglers in south Armagh have been frozen by the Northern High Court.