Two Aer Lingus workers and a Chinese national have been remanded in custody, charged with human trafficking at Dublin Airport.

A taxi driver whose car was hit head-on by a drunk driver in Kildare was pulled from his vehicle 30 seconds before it went up in flames, a court has head.

The sprawling rural escape described as a labour of love for Ryanair founder Tony Ryan is back on the market for an initial asking price of €6m.

A Dublin man who stabbed his cousin to death with a flick knife he had bought him as a present has had his prison sentenced reduced by three years by the Court of Appeal.

Armed detectives continued a high-speed chase of a getaway car despite believing they had been shot at, eventually arresting two gunmen, a High Court judge was told yesterday.

The Irish arm of Tesco has been ordered to pay €20,885 to a racially abused security worker who struck a youth with a shopping basket.

Robin Kelly stormed to victory in the season-opening Ned Flanagan Memorial in Monasterevin, Kildare yesterday.

Rugby star Donncha O’Callaghan walked the walk yesterday for a green school with the wow factor.

THE Performance Corporation is renowned for staging its theatre productions in adventurous places — in medieval dungeons, amongst sand dunes, even on a small rowboat. For its latest, most adventurous trick, it’s staging a three-day festival in Ireland’s only palace — Castletown House on the outskirts of Celbridge, Co Kildare.

A man suing the Sunday Times for defamation over an opinion piece about him filming the birth of his baby daughter accepts that it may have been an emergency delivery.

Linda Hannan had just come home from holidays with her family when she felt a little uncomfortable in her left breast.

A man accused of taking part in a plan to steal from a cash-in-transit van has today admitted travelling with a group including the late Eamonn Dunne to the scene of the attempted theft.

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Bernard Brogan: The 28-year-old Dublin forward won his first All-Ireland last year and will add to his sporting achievements by carrying the torch.

A man who sued a midwife for interrupting his filming of the birth of his child is to be allowed continue with a defamation action against The Sunday Times, after the High Court agreed to strike out some of his claims.

A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Lucan man Paul Harris.

A 53-year-old man who killed his girlfriend with a shotgun and dumped her tied-up body in the boot of a car has today been jailed for seven years.

Mother-of-four Glynis Curtis has told how she has had her benefits cut by almost the same amount as the Taoiseach’s weekly wage.

A man charged with the murder of a mother-of-one found in the boot of a car told detectives her death was an accident, a court heard today.

A 45-year-old man has been held by gardaí overnight in connection with the murder of a woman in Dublin.

A major gangland crime boss was shot six times in the head and body during a night out in a packed local pub, a post-mortem examination has revealed.

Fifty gardaí are cycling to Paris this week to raise money for charity.

Local streets will be sealed off and patrolled by armed gardaí as the suspects are ferried in convoy to the sitting at Kilmainham District Court.

Seven men were today charged in connection with an alleged €1m robbery attempt.

Since the start of 2006, 67 (check) people have met violent deaths — more than a killing every week.

An American man whose extradition was ordered last month is to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, it was revealed this afternoon.

President Mary McAleese tonight distanced herself from a scandal involving a trusted aide who alleged she faced years of bogus disciplinary proceedings from senior officials at Aras an Uachtarain.

A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murdering a young woman found dead at her family home in Celbridge, Co Kildare, earlier this week.

ROGUE puppy farm owners are to be brought to heel after plans to introduce standards and regulations following a large number of recent cruelty cases were unveiled yesterday.