House buyers may be able to get a mortgage, but without house insurance the banks won’t release the funds, as Laurie O’Flynn reports

A Latvian man resident in Swords who placed an advert to sell his illegally held pistols has been given a 18 month sentence and fined €300 by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

FRANCE rugby captain Jerome Thion, who suffered a fractured larynx during their 26-20 victory over South Africa, will be out for at least six weeks, team doctor Thierry Hermerel said last night.