Politicians, rights campaigners, and commentators have joined forces to raise concern about the so-called Jobstown trial, claiming the court case is the “criminalising of political protest”.

A four-week block in April 2017 has been set aside for the trial of AAA TD Paul Murphy and 15 others accused of falsely imprisoning the Tánaiste Joan Burton.

THE funeral of the victim of last Sunday’s stolen bus rampage through Dublin is to take place in the parish where she taught among the children she loved.