The cheeriest thing about No 6, Birchgrove, is its dark-pink/red colour. 

Anglo’s former second-in-command is now handing out food in the staff kitchen of Mountjoy Prison.

Friends star Matthew Perry has spoken about overcoming his drug and alcohol addiction as he was reunited with his former co-star Lisa Kudrow to receive an award for his work with rehabilitation centres.

The country’s top judge has said she was delighted that the Government had earmarked a site for the construction of a dedicated courts complex to deal with family-related cases.

Hotels in Tipperary and Wexford were among the 12 closure orders issued to food businesses last month, according to the latest figures from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.

THE office relocation of Landmark Media Investments Ltd, publishers of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers, to Blackpool, in Cork, is the second significant office deal in the city in recent weeks.

We have a duty as lawyers to do the best for our clients, and in the area of family law, mediation is an underused remedy that can avoid the pain and cost of going to court, writes Josepha Madigan

YOUR article “TDs and Senators owe Dáil bar €1,800” (May 5, 2010), suggesting that public representatives are “continuing to socialise at the taxpayers’ expense” is selective and misleading. The information with which your reporter was provided under FoI provides a snapshot of the money owed by Oireachtas Members to the Dáil bar at a given time.

PHOENIX House is aptly named in at least one respect — like the bird coming from the ashes it is about to rise again, albeit on the property market.

The Oireachtas committee on the Constitution is due to meet in public later today to discuss the issue of property rights.

A High Court judge today launched a scathing attack on conditions in the Special Criminal Court and contrasted them to the luxurious surroundings of the Court Service headquarters.

PRISON officers warned over a year ago that a pre-release female prison unit, from which two inmates escaped last Sunday, was “out of control”.