Profits at the group that owns the Oliver St John Gogarty pub and Blooms Hotel in Dublin’s Temple Bar were hit last year after the group’s three directors paid themselves €900,000 in pension contributions.

The owners of the Oliver St John Gogarty pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar last year wrote up pre-tax profits totalling €3.8m.

A psychopathic rapist who escaped from a life sentence and raped again six months later has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court.

A psychopathic rapist who escaped from a life sentence and raped again six months later will be sentenced this afternoon at the Central Criminal Court.