A judge jailed a grandmother for brothel keeping and dismissed her story that she returned to the prostitution business to bankroll her husband’s credit card spending spree as being “in the realms of Walter Mitty”.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has rejected five complaints it received following last year’s Rose of Tralee, but upheld in part a complaint against a Dublin radio station over a phone-in show on abortion and fatal foetal abnormalities.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has upheld part of a complaint against a phone-in show on Dublin's 98FM radio station.

Labour is also losing three of its most experienced members, three former leaders in fact, writes Alison O’Riordan

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny is not the first politician to use folksy parables as a framework for sharing policy ideas. When Mr Kenny describes meeting a man on the way to the Dáil, he is using a device used by politicians — and other comedians — for centuries: “On my way to the forum... etc. It is a recognised convention of communication but one with certain pitfalls.

A male NHS nurse with a cannibalism fetish has been found guilty of trying to meet a 14-year-old girl after sexually grooming her and promising to behead and eat her.

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Ben Stiller thinks being single at his age would be "horrible".

For many years, football referees have complained of being silenced. But if the card sharps are not to be blunted entirely, it is becoming increasingly clear that the gags must stay on.

Alex Ferguson has denied suggestions he may have had influence over referees during his decorated career.

A North Cork man caught with more than €16,000 worth of cannabis told investigating detectives he had the drugs to offer them as bribes to gardaí if he was caught speeding.

An out-of-work dance teacher, who made unfounded allegations that he was sexually assaulted by X-Factor judge Louis Walsh, was jailed today for six months.

An unemployed dance teacher who falsely accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub will learn today if he has won his appeal against a six-month prison sentence.

A former dance teacher was “crying out for help” when he made unfounded claims he was sexually assaulted by X Factor judge Louis Walsh, an appeal court was told yesterday.

An unemployed dance teacher who falsely accused 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub has suffered from post-traumatic stress for more than a decade, a court has heard.

The appeal brought by a former dance teacher against his six-month jail sentence for making false allegations that he was sexually assaulted by 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh, has been adjourned.

A man described as a “Walter Mitty” has launched an appeal against his jail sentence for concocting allegations that he was sexually assaulted by X Factor judge Louis Walsh.

A man described as a “Walter Mitty” type has launched an appeal against his jail sentence for concocting allegations that he was sexually assaulted by 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh.

In the first act of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the execution of Thane of Cawdor is described to King Duncan:

X Factor judge Louis Walsh is pleased and relieved after a man who falsely accused him of sexual assault was sentenced to six months in jail, his spokeswoman said.

An unemployed dance teacher has been sentenced to six months in jail for falsely accusing 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub.

An unemployed dance teacher is expected to be sentenced today after apologising for falsely accusing 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub.

A GARAGE owner was duped into selling a car to a man who made a phone-call pretending to be from a bank confirming the price of the car had been lodged in the vendor’s account.

A MAN described as a “Walter Mitty type” has apologised in court after admitting he concocting bogus allegations that he was sexually assaulted by X Factor judge Louis Walsh.

The man who pleaded guilty to making false statements to gardaí that Louis Walsh sexually assaulted him in a Dublin nightclub is set to be sentenced next January.

A 24-year-old man has apologised in court for making up allegations that X factor judge Louis Walsh sexually assaulted him in a Dublin nightclub.

Ben Stiller is to direct and star in 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'.

Sacha Baron Cohen is the latest star linked to a remake of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'.

A former Tipperary factory manager turned homeless alcoholic has been given a seven years sentence for importing cocaine worth over €460,000 from Chile.

An Offaly man who forced a young woman to have sex with him three times a week by threatening her with sanctions from the IRA has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

DEVELOPER Tom Gilmartin — who alleges falling foul of political corruption when he tried to set up a west Dublin project in the early 1990s — was an honourable and truthful man, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern received more than £100,000 in connection with planning projects from Cork-based developer Owen O’Callaghan in the early 1990s, rival businessman Tom Gilmartin alleged at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

BRITISH-BASED businessman Tom Gilmartin denied yesterday his evidence to the Mahon Tribunal was reckless and a malevolent cocktail of lies.

A "functioning alcoholic and drug user" who boasted in a pub that he had a semiautomatic pistol has been given a 15-years prison sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell who described him as "a danger to society"

Shrek star Mike Myers is to feature in a remake of the classic film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, it was reported today.

The man accused of killing a 54-year-old loan company agent was a “Walter Mitty” a murder trial jury heard today.

Inappropriate leading questions by investigating gardaí led homeless drug addict Dean Lyons to make a false confession to a double murder, an inquiry concluded today.

SENIOR gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be punished appropriately, a TD said last night.

Senior gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be be punished appropriately, a TD said tonight.

A conman was jailed for four-and-a-half years today after he tricked his way into Windsor Castle posing as a senior policeman escorting close friends of Princes William and Harry.

IT began with a broken marriage and ended yesterday with two gardaí labelled corrupt liars and 17 others branded grossly negligent or obstructive.

THIS entire set of circumstances started with a mischievous young woman anxious to portray herself as an informer, says Mr Justice Frederick Morris.

A DOWNING STREET official who described British Government weapons expert David Kelly as a “Walter Mitty” character denied yesterday his comments were part of a smear campaign against the scientist.