Stricken UK outdoors retailer Blacks Leisure confirmed today it will go into administration but said it still hopes most of the business will be salvaged by buyers.

A former taxi driver who drove a stolen van containing cigarettes worth over €300,000 which had been earlier robbed from two delivery men has been sentenced to four years in prison with the last two and half years suspended.

The jury in the trial of a woman charged with murdering a 66-year-old father, was sent home for the night after failing to reach a verdict at the Central Criminal Court.

When sprawling suburbia enveloped Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the local GAA club didn’t sit on their hands. St Brigid’s instigated a juvenile programme which has brought them all the way to an All-Ireland Club SFC semi final on Sunday. Mark Gallagher visited Dublin 15.