A legal row has erupted in relation to the development of a shopping centre at Blackrock in Co Dublin.

Elaine O’Hara, the subject of a massive suspicious death investigation, was a “trusted, respected and popular” woman who worked as a childcare assistant, it emerged yesterday.

A delivery man will be sentenced later for participating in a series of thefts of retail goods on Dublin’s south side.

MUNSTER coach Alan Gaffney is taking no chances with most of his star players in advance of the Heineken Cup semi final with Wasps.