The family of a man who took his own life have settled their High Court action for €105,000 against the estate of a vet, who they alleged gave the man a chemical, believing it was to treat a dog, but which he used to kill himself.

A waste disposal company and its director, Louis Moriarty, have been fined a total of €60,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for illegal dumping in Co Wicklow.

A 40-year-old man has been killed after being struck by a car in Limerick in the early hours of this morning.

A forecourt attendant who stole nearly €50,000 from a transport company through credit card fraud at the garage where he worked for 28 years has been given a four-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Food Safety Authority says it served closure orders on three firms last month for breaches of hygiene regulations.

Semtex explosives once owned by the Provisional IRA (PIRA) was used in a weekend rocket attack on police officers in the North, it was revealed today.

A HIGH Court judge has said a bank has been the subject of a “scam” relating to a sum of a €7 million loaned by it for a land purchase in Co Offaly and he had been told a “cock and bull story” by a businessman who gave evidence before him yesterday.

SWEDISH safety experts are coming to Dublin this week to help tackle unprecedented carnage on Irish roads.

THE Punchestown events centre fiasco is another example of mismanagement, passing the buck and waste of taxpayers’ money by this Government.

IT is time to reflect on the accusations (mostly truthful, I’d say) that have been made against the Catholic Church in Ireland.

No to Nice is best. I find it insulting that the Government should be putting another referendum after the emphatic No last time.