AN Australian court yesterday sentenced five Muslim extremists to prison terms of 23 to 28 years after convicting them of preparing for terror attacks on unspecified targets by stockpiling explosive chemicals and firearms.

A court sentenced five Muslim men to prison terms of 23 to 28 years in Australia’s largest terrorist conspiracy.

Five men who stockpiled bomb-making instructions and bought explosive chemicals were convicted today of Australia’s largest terrorist conspiracy.

Legal history was made today when an Australian court sat for the first time in the Republic of Ireland to hear how a train driver was paralysed during a holiday swimming accident.

IRISH legal history will be created next month when an entire Australian court will sit in Dublin to hear a negligence action taken by an Irish holidaymaker who was seriously injured in a diving accident in 1999.