A man has admitted to carrying out a €1.2m jewellery heist at Dundrum shopping centre in Dublin on the fifth day of his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Mr Justice Paul Carney has described a rapist’s claims that he was wrongly convicted as “contemptuous”.

THE HSE has refused to comment on plans for a €12 million windfall its due to receive from the sale of a landbank in Clonmel.

A 26-year-old Dublin man is in a critical condition in hospital following a stabbing on the south side of the city at the weekend.

Gardaí say they are following a definite line of inquiry into this morning's stabbing in Dublin in which a 26-year-old Englishman was injured.

Two young men are in a critical condition in hospital this morning after being stabbed in separate incidents in Dublin and Cork overnight.

THE family of an 18-year-old who died after being released from garda custody demanded an independent inquiry yesterday into the circumstances behind his death.

The family of an 18-year-old who died after being released from Garda custody today demanded an independent inquiry.

ONE hundred and seventy full and part-time jobs are on the way for the South Tipperary town of Cahir.

THE man who died in a fire at his home in Tipperary town was named last night as Andrew Flavin, 46.

THE families of six people, including two children and a grandmother, are preparing to bury their loved ones today following one of the blackest days for road traffic accidents in the history of the State.

A Dublin man has been given early release from his 10-year sentence for raping a woman whom he dragged into bushes and subjected to almost seven hours of violent sexual molesting in 1996.

Family of 14-year-old prays for a miracle

The body of a woman has been found in Tipperary town this evening.