A legal action, which it’s claimed could lead to a €100m pay-out, is to be taken on behalf of the victims of the Cork Airport plane crash.

Two Irish films - including Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto - starring a host of top actors are set to premiere on the world stage at a major UK festival, it was confirmed today.

AN elderly Kerryman is due back before a court in the Isle of Man today on a charge of manslaughter.

FIANNA FÁIL has been sharply criticised by Frank Dunlop for suggesting the party did not attempt to instruct its members on Dublin Co Council how to vote on planning issues during the late 1980s and 1990s.

Andrea Corr is to play her first leading film role in The Great Ceili War, a musical comedy.

Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen has been appointed as director of Fianna Fail’s Nice Treaty referendum campaign following the resignation of PJ Mara this afternoon.

A High Court judge said the "insane behaviour" of a man sentenced to 18 months for being an accessory to murder was led by a "misguided sense of friendship".