Bitter rival Samsung faced two options to compete in the booming mobile phone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical acclaim in 2007 - innovate or copy, an Apple lawyer told a US court.

A Dublin man was jailed for four years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for having guns and ammunition in south Dublin last year.

A Dublin man pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today to having guns and ammunition in south Dublin last year.

A Wicklow resident, who twice shot at an empty parked car outside a house because he had "a grudge" against the homeowner for killing his friend, has been jailed for four years.

Two of the three men arrested during Garda investigations into alleged dissident republican activities in Dublin last week were freed on bail at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

PAUL VERHOEVEN ditches his RoboCop past with Black Book (Tartan, €24.99), a remarkable war drama which finds the beautiful Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) as the survivor of a Nazi massacre which has wiped out her family.

GARDAÍ have a made a breakthrough in the investigation of a drug dealer’s body found dumped in Wicklow’s woods last month.

GARDAÍ have named the drug dealer whose body was discovered near a beauty spot in Roundwood, Co Wicklow.