An Indian restaurant in Dublin 4 has been ordered to pay a customer €3,000 over the owner’s refusal to serve the man food.

A father and daughter appeared in court yesterday charged with resisting arrest and criminal damage during a protest at the Israeli embassy in Dublin.

A Cork office scheme which is due to host several hundred new EMC jobs, has just been bought as an investment by Irish Life for as much as €40m.

There have been renewed calls for flood defences in Cork after the city and county were hit by flooding for the second night in a row.