A decision by the Employment Appeals Tribunal, that a primary school principal who took early retirement was constructively dismissed, has been upheld at Limerick Circuit Court and the amount of compensation has more than doubled. 

A 29-year-old man charged in connection with a ‘barbaric’ attack on three pensioner siblings at their isolated home in Limerick will serve no time in jail after receiving a suspended jail sentence.

Two investigations in Ireland and the US were carried out into an incident on an Aer Lingus flight where two flight attendants were accused of being drunk, abusive and threatening to passengers.

Passengers had been expecting a relaxed, uneventful transatlantic flight, but what they got was several hours ‘terrified at the hands of an intoxicated and out-of-control flight crew’, reports Conall Ó Fátharta.

Co Donegal gardaí allegedly acted towards a man with autism in a manner that would cause much concern, a High Court judge has said.

MANCHESTER United chief executive David Gill insists there is no pressure to sell star players such as Wayne Rooney despite the club making losses of £83.6 million (€95.8m).

Manchester United chief executive David Gill insists there is no pressure to sell star players such as Wayne Rooney despite the club making losses of £83.6m.

THE man who headed the State’s probe into the misdiagnosis of a breast cancer patient was “surprised and disappointed” but not “horrified” when it revealed systemic mismanagement at two HSE hospitals.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney must be heldaccountable for the Health Service Executive’s response to the report on the misdiagnosis of a breast cancer patient, Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan insisted yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was allegedly behind an attempted “blackmail” plot in the 1990s relating to a former junior minister and rent boys in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

IT was a firebomb attack that shocked the nation.

Moviemaker Spike Lee is hunting for the perfect James Brown, so he can make a start on a planned biopic of the soul legend.

Authorities at Paris’ largest airport have stripped several dozen employees - almost all Muslims – of their security badges in a crackdown against terrorism.

TAXI drivers in Killarney are up in arms over a submission sent by Killarney Town Council to the Commission for Taxi Regulation.

Malcolm X director Spike Lee and actor Denzel Washington are still bitter their efforts were not recognised at the 1992 Academy Awards.

QUESTIONS should have been raised over the reliability and motivation of damning statements implicating a Raphoe publican in the death of a local cattle dealer, it was claimed last night.

Questions should have been raised over the reliability and motivation of damning statements implicating a Raphoe publican in the death of a local cattle dealer, it was claimed tonight.

Hollywood hunk Denzel Washington is marking his 50th birthday this year by buying himself a $315,000 (€256,000) Rolls Royce Phantom.

The chief witness in the trial of five men accused of murder has alleged that four men were to be murdered on the night Kieran Keane was shot dead and he himself was left fighting for his life.

The trial of five Limerick men for the murder of Kieran Keane and the attempted murder of his nephew opened amid tight security in Dublin's Cloverhill courthouse today.

Potentially vital memorandum notes from garda conferences called to assess investigations into the 1996 mystery death of Co Donegal cattle dealer Richie Barron, are to be made available to the Morris Tribunal on garda corruption allegations.

CHILD killer Mary Bell and her teenage daughter yesterday won their British High Court bid for lifelong anonymity.

A Garda told a murder trial today how he realised that an alleged double murder suspect captured on video footage was a man he had spent four days taking a witness statement from.

A lawyer today challenged whether the Saville Inquiry could ever establish what the IRA did on Bloody Sunday because of a ‘‘paucity’’ of direct evidence from the group during the four years since the inquiry opened.