NEW technology allowing video conference-style international link-ups for court cases is being incorporated into Cork’s Washington Street Courthouse, which will be back in business by the end of January 2005. It is five-and-a-half years since the doors of the historic building closed for renovations.

Ian Bailey has lost his libel action against newspapers that linked him to the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork seven years ago.

IAN BAILEY is referred to in West Cork as "the murderer".