Rent rises for tens of thousands of tenants in Cork, Galway, and areas around Dublin will be capped from today, but some cities and towns have failed a ‘rent pressure zone’ test, sparking a backlash from TDs.

Newstalk’s former money doctor, who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud, has been given a four-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform unpaid work in the community.

Trainer Phil McEntee, now based in Newmarket, made a successful and emotional return to Laytown yesterday when Putin won the opening Download The At The Races App Handicap.

You really have to wonder about what spurs on business people and associated creative types (that is, chefs who wish to make a true mark) to develop a new restaurant/gastropub without coming anywhere close to crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s.

A Meath insurance broker who took out 38 fictitious policies in order to be paid commission totalling €109,000 will be sentenced in October.

A priest has asked people who lost loved ones through road carnage to write to, telephone, and visit the families of two young men killed in a car crash in Co Donegal.

Julianstown children set for big time, says Nicki ffrench Davis

Hugh crowds attended the latest Charolais Christmas Cracker show/sale, hosted by the Irish Charolais Cattle Society in Carrick on Suir, Co Tipperary, last weekend.

A legal dispute between AIB and several former senior executives whom the bank accused of secretly scheming to take over its international financial services business has been settled, the Commercial Court has heard.

We all know the country is broke and Finance Minister Michel Noonan has some difficult decisions to make but, as an 84-year-old pensioner and widow, I would ask him to look elsewhere to make his cuts.

The M1 has re-opened between the Julianstown and Balbriggan junctions after a collision was cleared.

A number of traffic incidents are causing delays for motorists around Dublin this morning.

The High Court has granted AIB certain, but not all, orders it sought against its former executives and a rival company the bank claims conspired to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB's International Financial Services (IFS) business.

THE High Court will rule next week on an application by AIB for an injunction against a number of former executives and a rival company the bank claims conspired to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB’s International Financial Services (IFS) business.

The High Court will rule next week on an application by AIB for an injunction against a number of former executives and a rival rival company the bank claims conspired to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB's International Financial Services (IFS) business.

SEVERAL former executives with an AIB subsidiary acted in acted in “a deliberate, clandestine and unlawful manner” by planning to take over its international financial services business, the High Court heard.

Several former senior executives with an AIB subsidiary acted in "a deliberate, clandestine and unlawful manner" by secretly scheming to take over its international financial services business, the High Court has heard.

Settlement talks have failed to resolve a High Court dispute involving AIB and several of its former senior executives accused by the bank of secretly scheming to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB's international financial services business for their own gain.

AIB is to enter mediation talks with six former senior executives accused by the bank of secretly scheming to take over the clients, business and staff of AIB's international financial services business for their own gain, the High Court heard today.

SIX senior AIB executives secretly and systematically colluded in the preparation and execution of a premeditated strategy to undermine and damage the bank’s International Financial Services business for their own gain, the High Court has heard.

THE Celtic Tiger helped destroy the character of many old villages, but efforts are underway to preserve what’s left and again make villages attractive places in which to live.

Some bus services are subject to some delays and diversions this evening, particularly in the east and south east.

BRAIN scans of a young man whose death led to allegations of professional misconduct against one of his doctors did not indicate a medical emergency, anexpert witness told a Medical Council hearing.

“I KNEW there was something wrong. Nobody listened to me. I was the over-anxious mother fussing about her child. Now I have no child. It’s just not good enough.”

The Irish Medical Council's Fitness to Practice Committee is investigating an allegation of professional misconduct against a consultant radiologist at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth.

A father-of-one has received a two-year suspended sentence and a €4,000 fine for possessing 450 kegs of beer stolen from Diageo Ireland.

A RECORD low number of road deaths in the first quarter of 2010 has been spoiled by news that four families have lost loved ones on the roads so far this month.

Two pedestrians have been killed on the country's roads overnight.

MAUREEN O’Donnell’s misconceptions on the Lisbon guarantees and her reckless casting of Angela Merkel as a modern-day Hitler (Letters, September 7) cannot be left unchecked.

A man found in Co Meath with 450 stolen kegs of beer and stout two years ago is to be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Special Criminal Court remanded in custody a Dublin man who is charged with the possession of a firearm and ammunition.

GARDAÍ are to talk to people linked with a yard where items from last week’s audacious theft of 450 kegs from Guinness were found.

Gardaí are hunting a truck driver who rammed a patrol car at a checkpoint in Co Meath early today.

THE early arrest of nine suspects — including two people intercepted during their getaway — is highly unusual in tiger kidnapping cases, according to senior garda sources.

An accident involving a lorry has caused major traffic disruption on the M1 in north Co Dublin today.

There has been a four-car collision on the M1 motorway.

A MAN was left seriously injured after he was stabbed during a row at a Christmas party in County Meath.

Gardaí in Co Meath are investigating an incident in which a man was stabbed a number of times.

Four men were arrested today after an armed robbery at a shop in Co Meath.

THE Irish Examiner has been cleared of a charge of contempt of court following the publication of newspaper reports earlier this week which led to the discharge of a jury in a murder trial.

TAKE a peek at this Robinhill home from the air, and it seems to give the ‘two-fingers’ salute to standard, block-shaped bungalows imposed on the Irish landscape.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams was today preparing to brief his party in the Irish Republic on the peace process as hopes of a breakthrough continued to fade.