Thirteen people yesterday pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud insurance firms by taking part in staged road accidents.

Food giant Dairygold was fined the maximum €12,000 at Midleton Court yesterday after the firm admitted it was responsible for the accidental death of around 20,000 fish in the Kiltha River in East Cork.

IN RECENT times, two members of a well-known British boy band were brought before an Irish court to answer charges of bad behaviour and the use of bad language.