A man caught with over €37,000 worth of heroin on St Patrick’s Day in a car near a motorway toll booth in Cork had a lifestyle that included trips to Las Vegas, despite social welfare being his only declared income.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Irish boxing’s greatest achievement — the day Michael Carruth won Irish boxing’s first gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona and Wayne McCullagh added a silver.

DUBLIN football fans turned out in their tens of thousands in Merrion Square on Monday night to welcome their All-Ireland heroes and the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), Pat Hickey, is hoping for a repeat crowd to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic Torch Relay on June 6 next year.

BACK when I was young and it was sunny all summer long, I got a job in a garden centre.

Let’s. Get. Ready. To. Rumb… suddenly, ‘The Tank’ has me turned over with my head in a vice-like lock