The K Club’s Ryder Cup course has been voted the country’s top parkland course for 2014 by readers of Golfing Weekly. Its sister course at the Straffan estate, the Smurfit Course, came in at No 15.

Two houses were destroyed in the latest in a string of attacks on Traveller accommodation in Co Clare.

Four houses built as part of a Traveller accommodation programme, which were already refurbished following previous arson and vandalism attacks, have been targeted again.

A READY-to-go site for a large, 3,660 sq ft contemporary-styled four bed home is for sale at Beech Park in Rathcormac.

NATIONAL Irish Bank is entitled to summary judgment for €37 million against Durkan New Homes, a couple and another firm over failure to repay loans given for a housing development at Cabinteely, Co Dublin, the High Court has ruled.

Transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court are "intensely relevant" to a civil action being brought against them in the North by victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Supreme Court heard today.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal later this week against the High Court ruling that the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to certain, but not all, of the documentation they had been seeking from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

A SCHOOL honoured its greatest sporting hero yesterday almost two years after he was killed in a car crash.

The families of some of those killed in the Omagh bombing are seeking the discovery of documentation from five individuals who have appeared before the Special Criminal Court and are being sued for damages arising out of the 1998 explosion that killed 29 people, the High Court in Dublin heard today.

THE first person in the State to be convicted of directing terrorist activities yesterday began a Supreme Court appeal against his conviction and 20-year jail sentence.

Clare County Council today announced that up to 10,000 vehicles per day are expected to use section two of the N18 Ennis bypass project, which opens to traffic at 7pm today.

Jailed "Real IRA" leader Michael McKevitt is to launch an appeal against his conviction for directing the activities of a terrorist organisation.

GRAEME DUNLEA aged 18 from Killorglin, Co Kerry, won the fifth Irish News of the World Young Irish Golfers Challenge at Luttrellstown’s par 72 course yesterday.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today that he scouted the US/Mexican border as a possible entry point to the United States for the alleged Real IRA leader Michael Mc Kevitt.

The key witness in the trial of alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt was paid $1.25m to infiltrate the dissident republican group, a court heard today.

The key witness in the trial of a man accused of masterminding the organisation behind the Omagh bombing is planning to write a profit-making book about the case, a court heard today.

The Special Criminal Court has fixed June 4 as the preliminary date for the trial of 51-year-old Michael McKevitt, the alleged leader of the Real IRA.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that sensitive documents in a case involving the alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt should not be disclosed for a bail application.