Gardaí are investigating a vicious assault on a 73-year-old man who was beaten around the head and body and left with a punctured lung when attacked in a van in which he was sleeping.

The High Court has awarded a singer €64,300 in damages for injuries she sustained after she slipped and fell in a Dunnes Stores supermarket.

SOMEWHERE in Cork, the owner of a lucky Quickpick ticket is holding onto a €4.2 million fortune.