"His name is Noel. He’s got two wrists of solid gold."

The Sunday World has apologised, and agreed to pay undisclosed damages, to a Bank of Ireland employee under a settlement of his legal action alleging defamation in an article concerning a €7.6m tiger kidnapping heist in Dublin.

His three-year term ended in defeat at Healy Park, but Meath manager Mick O’Dowd hopes to remain in the role.

I wish to thank you for the article in your paper about Coffee. “Smell The coffee” (Irish Examiner, 26 June). It was interesting and helpful, but with regard to the smell, incomplete.

Price increases in the Dublin office market show no sign of slowing but are instead likely to climb another 30% by the end of the next year.

ONE fabulously hot morning last month, a man stood on the roof of a building in Dublin City centre, indicating, by his actions if not words, that he planned to throw himself off.

While taking shelter from the rain outside Bank Of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, today at 11am, I noticed a homeless man sleeping in a doorway.

A court has heard that three masked gunmen burst into the home of a former All-Ireland hurling champion as part of a botched €3m tiger raid on Bank of Ireland.

Peter Pringle was condemned to death for the murder of two gardaí, but was freed on appeal. In his book he claimed a miscarriage of justice. Not everyone agrees, writes Michael Clifford

LARRY Goodman’s purchase of the old Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot St in Dublin — announced last weekend — is a remarkable story.

A former employee at a charity for people with disabilities admitted yesterday that he stole €188,000 from the organisation in Cork.

Retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch is due to open its long-awaited Irish outlet in September.

Bones buried in a plastic bag in a Wicklow mountain forest are believed to be those of a Romanian teenager missing for four years.

Gardaí in Clare have arrested two men over yesterday's bank raid in Kilkee.

A 24-year-old man has appeared before Kilkenny District Court charged in connection with a tiger-kidnapping at the home of a former All-Ireland hurling star.

A man has been arrested in relation to the false imprisonment of a bank official (former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan) and his family in Kilkenny almost two years ago.

AS the hunt for two armed raiders who botched a bank robbery in Cork last Friday intensifies, gardaí believe they now know the getaway route taken by the men after they fled empty-handed.

TEARS were shed in pride and jubilation as President Barack Obama enchanted the nation in a powerful outdoor address.

Gardaí in Dublin have today arrested two men in connection with a kidnapping in Irishtown earlier this year.

THE wife of a bank official yesterday became the latest victim of a tiger kidnapping as two men kidnapped her from her home and demanded that her husband hand over cash to secure her release.

A GANG made off with tens of thousands of euro worth of diamond rings following a robbery at a jewellers in east Cork during the early hours of yesterday morning.

Detectives are today hunting a gang who held-up a small-town bank branch in white boiler suits wielding a lump hammer and gun.

Gardaí are investigating the abduction of members of a cash-in-transit worker's family in Dublin.

HURLER DJ Carey has called for a zero tolerance approach, including electronic tagging, for criminals convicted of carrying out tiger kidnappings on bank officials and their families.

ONE man is dead and another seriously injured after gardaí from the organised crime unit smashed an attempted raid on a cash-in-transit van by armed criminals linked to suspects in the €7.6 million raid on the Bank of Ireland in March.

Two gunmen who robbed a bank crashed their getaway car and hijacked a second vehicle at gunpoint, detectives said today.

Workers at Bank of Ireland have been advised today that a share allocation bonus, agreed as part of a cost management programme which was delivered one year ahead of schedule, has been halved with no notice and an apparent disregard for agreed procedures.

Gardaí in Portlaoise are carrying out searches for a 59-year-old man who has been missing from his home since April.

It’s been an immense year for Kerry’s Killian Young, and the young footballer of the year has a full diary all the way to Christmas — starting with tomorrow’s county final. Michael Moynihan reports.

CANDLELIGHT vigils will be held at venues across the country on September 10 to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day.

One of three men who forced a porter to open up a bank at gun point telling him they had kidnapped his wife has been jailed for seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A child was killed in a traffic incident in Co Laois this afternoon.

A crack cocaine and heroin addict who shot himself in the foot after robbing three money bags from a Brinks Allied van has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A chronic drug addict who shot himself in the foot after robbing three money bags from a Brinks Allied van has been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Cane Brake gave Barry Geraghty back-to-back wins in the williamhill.ie Troytown Handicap Chase with a clear-cut victory in the Navan feature.

Connections of Moscow Flyer were not downcast after the dual Queen Mother Champion Chase hero was surprisingly beaten at Navan,

If former Mayo footballer Peter Ford is to win the Connacht SFC title in his first season in charge of Galway, his youthful selection for Sunday will be championed.

The times and venues for the first round games in the Bank of Ireland football qualifiers have been announced, with seven games down for decision this Saturday.

THE painting on the wall is stylised and well executed and depicts suppertime at a traditional Traveller encampment. Next to it roars a space shuttle as it blasts into fiery orbit while, nearby, the rapper 50 Cent looks sassy.

SECURITY companies have been exposing themselves to risk for years in order to suit the opening hours of some banks, it was claimed yesterday.