Five people arrested as part of an investigation into the false imprisonment of a number of people in Co Meath have appeared in court today.

CORK City Council looks set to make a small profit on its plans to sell an historic and elegant bank branch, which it bought just over two years ago, thanks to municipal public realm investments and private developments also on the doorstep of 1 Lapps Quay.

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INVESTORS seeking a return close to 13% on their €1m investment should beat a path to Cork’s Marlboro Street and to nos 40/41, home to travel company Trailfinders, which is occupying on a 25-year lease from 2006.

A 1,000-strong congregation burst into spontaneous applause last night after hearing heartfelt tributes to a mother and daughter brutally murdered at the weekend.

A gambling addict conned over €27,000 from a couple by convincing them racehorse owner JP McManus would finance their angel sanctuary business.

A receiver has been appointed to one of the largest construction firms in the mid-west, Brian McCarthy Contractors Ltd, that ceased trading last month.

A bank clerk took €200,000 from an Allied Irish Bank branch after his friend was taken hostage from their home in a tiger-kidnapping, it was revealed tonight.

Thousands of people are expected to attend a public rally today to protest against jobs cuts at Waterford Crystal.

A north-inner-city Dublin man has been given 16 years in consecutive sentences by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an attempted Securicor cash van heist while he was on bail for having cocaine for sale or supply.

SOME houses are ready to move into and just ‘hang up you hat,’ as auctioneers are fond of saying. But, how about a home where you get to hang up all of your clothes, don a pair of togs, and dive right on in?

I FIND it hard to believe that Bertie cannot recollect driving Celia Larkin to AIB in O’Connell Street, Dublin, and waiting for her outside.

COASTAL communities had raised €17,000 by last night to help those affected by the sinking of doomed Kinsale trawler, the Honeydew II.

A LIMERICK toddler with a rare, life-threatening disease, is heading to the US for treatment which could change his life.

A Romanian man who admitted having sex with a 14-year-old Irish girl has been allowed withdraw his guilty plea at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as a result of this week’s Supreme Court judgement.

AN armed robber wearing sunglasses walked in to a bank and queued up to wait his turn before producing a handgun and forcing a teller to hand over cash.

Staff at a university campus bank in Limerick were threatened at gunpoint by armed raiders earlier today - the second time in less than three weeks.

A gang used a stolen digger to break an ATM free from a building but they failed to get any cash, gardaí said today.

Gardai in Dublin are investigating an armed robbery which occurred at the AIB in Ranelagh at 11.30am today.

CHARITY worker Edith Wilkins who offers hope to Calcutta’s street children said that a lot of good would come from Tim Allen’s €40,000 donation.

Two men boarding a train for Dublin have been arrested in connection with a bank raid in Tipperary town.

The US banker at the centre of an alleged €866m fraud has met voluntarily with the FBI and federal prosecutors, his lawyer said.