A campaigner for the homeless was convicted of stealing almost €27,000 from the bank account an 87-year-old care home patient.

A family whose 14-year-old son died after falling into a coma in a Garda station 10 years ago, were last night “devastated and shocked” after an older son was shot dead in an early morning attack.

Gardaí believe a man shot dead in Co. Tipperary this morning was not the intended target of the gang-related attack.

A RESTORATION project may have unearthed Ireland’s earliest surviving example of a timber framed house.

IF or when this country is restored to normality, the system which brought it to its knees must be drastically changed.

A FEMALE GAA treasurer yesterday pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to stealing cash amounting to €75,943 from the Blackrock club in Kilfinane and forging cheques to the value of €11,771.

A TEENAGER who had earlier breached his bail conditions and fled to London was yesterday charged in connection with the death of a man in Killarney almost a year ago.

THE autumn schedule is now being shown on RTÉ and again we are subjected to the same old faces and programmes.

A BIG thank you to Ryanair, and particularly Captain Dave Courtney. I was flying from Shannon to Beauvais with my wife and two daughters on Thursday, February 23.