A new education/arts use is being pencilled in for a high profile Cork city centre building by the proposed events centre/Brewery Quarter, which is being sold for well over €1 million.

The former Maddens TV shop, at no 5, Parliament St, is to let in Cork City

A court has heard that three masked gunmen burst into the home of a former All-Ireland hurling champion as part of a botched €3m tiger raid on Bank of Ireland.

A British and Irish Lions rugby star has apologised for playing a prank on British Prime Minister David Cameron during a team visit to Downing Street.

The winner of last Wednesday's €4.4m Lotto jackpot has yet to come forward.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for information about an alleged sexual assault that happened in Tallaght over the Bank Holiday weekend.

A 24-year-old man has appeared before Kilkenny District Court charged in connection with a tiger-kidnapping at the home of a former All-Ireland hurling star.

A man has been arrested in relation to the false imprisonment of a bank official (former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan) and his family in Kilkenny almost two years ago.

Hundreds of people have been braving the elements in Dublin city centre today to gain access to College Green ahead of Barack Obama’s speech this evening.

THE celebration for US President Barack Obama’s visit this evening in Dublin city centre is likely to attract over 30,000 people, with a host of acts set to entertain crowds.

STRICT and intense security measures will be in place today for the visit of US President Barack Obama.

TENS of thousands are expected to greet President Barack Obama at a free rally in College Green in Dublin next Monday.

Tough new laws to stop aggressive begging, which came into force today, are in the public interest, the Government has claimed.

* January 6: Three members of UDR killed by an IRA landmine near Castlewellan, Co Down.

Two people remain in Garda custody in connection with the kidnapping of bank official and former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan and his family last year.

TWO Dublin city restaurateurs have been intimidated, harassed and threatened by employees of a debt recovery agency over a disputed debt of some €70,000, the High Court heard yesterday.

More details are expected to emerge today about the 'tiger' kidnapping involving former Kilkenny hurler, Adrian Ronan.

A MOTHER-OF-THREE was abducted from her home by an armed gang in the latest tiger kidnapping involving a bank official’s family yesterday morning.

An All-Ireland winning hurler and his family are recovering after he was forced to demand several million euro cash from the bank where he works after a kidnap gang threatened his wife and three children.

Shoppers picking up the Arctic Monkeys’ new single from Oxfam in the UK could win “golden tickets” to see them in person.

THE examiner to the Thomas Read Group, operators of 18 of Dublin’s best known bars and restaurants, wants the High Court to approve his scheme of survival for the hostelries rather than that proposed by the group’s largest creditor, ACC Bank.

The High Court has granted orders for the winding up of four companies in the Thomas Read group on grounds they have no reasonable prospect of survival.

THE mayor of Kilkenny has slammed a proposal for a strip club in the city, which is due to come before the local court today.

A traffic accident has caused major disruption to motorists on Dublin's quays this morning.

The law on begging has been struck out by the High Court after a man successfully argued that it was unconstitutional.

THE first solicitor to be found guilty of overcharging child abuse victims for cases brought before the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) has been censured and fined a total of €5,000.

Two witnesses have told a jury that they saw gardaí beat a school teacher friend with batons as he lay on the ground during the May Day 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration.

A multimedia student who made a documentary of the Mayday 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration has told a jury he thought protesters believed they were being playful when they surrounded and rocked a garda car.

A garda accused of assaulting three "Reclaim the Streets" protesters has told a jury that he accepted he had hit one of them on the head and had used excessive force.

A garda inspector who was on duty at the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May 6, 2002, told a jury he ordered gardaí to put their batons away when he saw them being used on the crowd.

A 19-year-old man told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Garda Donal Corcoran was the man who hit him in an assault he described as "fast, bloody and brutal".

A garda hit a May 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstrator over the head with a baton after dragging him back by the hold of his sweatshirt, a jury in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, has been told.

A community garda hit a May 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstrator over the head with a baton after dragging him back by the hood of his sweatshirt, a jury has been told.

I AM a martyr for the pint. I believe there is nothing like the next one.

A RESTAURANT owner and embassy officials are on the brink of a Mexican stand-off over the name of a new restaurant in Kilkenny city.

Fire services have brought a blaze in Dublin’s city centre under control.

The alert at 10 Downing Street has been called off, with Downing Street reopened.