WITH €475,000 on offer in tomorrow night’s Global Champions Tour opener in Doha, riders will not be lacking in incentive.

BANK of Ireland is moving headquarters to its premises in Mespil Road, a short distance from its iconic HQ in Dublin’s Baggot Street.

A 33-year-old male was arrested today after an elderly man was robbed and threatened at knife point at his home.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to an aggravated burglary in Dublin on Friday evening in which an elderly man was threatened and robbed at knifepoint.

THE Olympic Council of Ireland appear certain to stand firm on their weekend deadline for Olympic qualification.

THE Mahon Tribunal is to examine floor plans of Leinster House in the 1980s to decide if a description Tom Gilmartin gave of a meeting there is consistent with the layout of the building at the time.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern and Sligo businessman Tom Gilmartin have given the Mahon Tribunal conflicting accounts of meetings they had to discuss the redevelopment of Bachelors Walk in the late 1980s.

A rapist who previously served seven years of a 10-year term has been remanded in custody for sentence for sexually assaulting a young woman in the early hours of Millenium Eve.

The defence lawyer for John Gilligan told the Special Criminal Court today that protected witness Charles Bowden lied to the gardai and in the witness box.