Three men appeared before a sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court at the weekend, charged with membership of the IRA among other offences.

A commercial future use almost certainly beckons for Abbeyfield House, being sold on behalf of a charity on Cork city’s Curraheen Road, right opposite the Melbourn Road junction.

IN his letter headlined ‘Why give borrowed money as foreign aid?’ (September 12), Myles Duffy asserts that because our economic circumstances are “radically different” now, we should cut the relatively modest amount spent through Irish aid on some of the world’s poorest countries.

PARENTS were last night warned against lending the family car to their teenage children as the most dangerous month on the roads gets into full swing.

As the weekend death toll on the roads reached nine, safety chiefs today reiterated warnings that July is the deadliest month for collisions.

Gardaí have named four of the people who lost their lives in road accidents at the weekend.