A €73,000 MERCEDES E 200 Kompressor with an on-board computer that all but tells a driver his shoe laces are undone. A two- year warranty that cushions the heftiest of repair bills.

A former drug addict who absconded to Australia seven years ago when due for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for an attempted robbery which resulted in a garda leaving the force has been jailed.

A Dublin businessman who paid almost €10m in the largest ever Revenue settlement is to be sentenced today for tax evasion.