Ordinary people turned from good citizens to eager murderers in Nazi Germany. How could this happen? Sue Leonard discovers how, from the author of a new novel.

There will be a hint of the GAA on show tonight at Castle Avenue when Clontarf host the world-famous Barbarians in a rugby game commemorating the Battle of Clontarf.

The most celebrated colours in National Hunt racing were yesterday worn in a poignant tribute to a young jockey who died last Friday at the racing establishment in Co Limerick where he was an apprentice.

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It is now widely accepted that US president John F Kennedy would never have visited Limerick in 1963 were it not for the persistence of Mayor Frances Condell.

William Ryan has written a third crime novel featuring Captain Alexei Korolev and he tells Declan Burke why the series is set in Russia

A 52-year-old man who drowned in the sea in Co Clare last year “died needlessly” and had no safety or communications equipment with him.

Joanne Cuddihy cast aside the pain of the elimination of younger sister Catriona’s from the women’s Olympic 4x400m squad to win the Athlete of the Meet award at the Woodies DIY national track and field championships at Morton Stadium yesterday.

Jason Smyth’s attempts to become the first individual athlete to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic games came to an end in Santry Stadium today, but it was the extent of a possible injury to Derval O'Rourke that occupied Team Ireland's minds.

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

FORMER Galway All-Ireland winner John Divilly’s run of success with NUI Maynooth continued at Belfield yesterday afternoon as he guided the Kildare college to their second successive Sigerson Cup semi-final.

The Holy Thief

A father-of-one was out on bail for several crimes when he attacked two Polish mechanics with the man who murdered them.

The co-accused in a double murder trial told detectives he was no rat and would not name the person who stabbed two Polish men in the heads with a screw driver.

A MAN was arrested yesterday in connection with a hit-and-run accident that resulted in the death of a woman aged 86.

A Kilkenny man who allegedly set fire to a friend he suspected had HIV, comforted and shared drink with his victim earlier in the evening, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A former Roscommon garda has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of a false traffic accident.