A Cork Councillor says homeless people who have resorted to living in tents at the River Lee Quays are being hounded away - to detract attention from the homeless crisis.

Another property's been taken over by homelessness activists in Dublin this evening.

A man who slashed his ex-girlfriend’s face with a knife before putting her head under hot running water has had his sentence doubled today.

The wife of the Donegal GAA team doctor did not tell him she had been involved in a carjacking incident until after a vital game at Croke Park.