An RTÉ studio supervisor who claims he has been left with a constant whistling in his ears after part of a toilet roll dispenser fell on his head as as he sat on the toilet at Montrose has sued in the High Court.

As the curtains come down on the Special Olympics World Summer Games, Team Ireland are celebrating a hugely successful spell in Los Angeles.

William Kelly, 24, continued a growing family tradition in the protection of the State yesterday.

A woman's remains are to be exhumed in Limerick today as part of an effort to determine how she died 20 years ago.

Victorial White's article last week about the immorality of SMA sponsoring ‘pregnancy and baby’ fairs, in Cork and Dublin, drew a phenomonal response, some of it positive, some of it angry. Here she expands further on her arguments and responds to the criticism. (Comment on this story) 

Two men in their 20s have been arrested and cocaine with an estimated street value of €250,000 seized following a garda raid on a flat in Rathmines, Dublin.

A High Court judge has awarded KBC Bank €17.7m damages against Dublin law firm BCM Hanby Wallace, now Byrne Wallace over “most serious” failures to ensure the bank had security for substantial loans advanced to a property developer and struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne.

A price of €3m paid by developer John Kelly for 18 acres at Oylgate, Co Wexford, which included “a mixture of forestry and flooding” was “mad”, KBC Bank, which advanced several loans to the developer, argued before the Commercial Court.

AIB is denying that it is to blame for the insolvency of Home Payments - a bill payments and services company which went bust earlier this month.

Provisional liquidators have been appointed to Home Payments, the bill payment and savings company which ceased trading this week.

“ENOUGH is enough, you can’t get blood from a stone,” the Defence Forces’ association has warned, as details emerge of some soldiers having their homes repossessed.

One of the country’s leading names in fashion has paid more than €6m to the Revenue for tax dodging, it was revealed.

IT wasn’t exactly a steal for the buyers but the auction of Martin Cahill’s former home didn’t represent daylight robbery by the sellers either.

A MAN who was in a coma for more than a month following a pub assault is recovering, it emerged yesterday.

Abrakebabra has signed a master franchise agreement with UK-based AKA Group Ltd, that will see up to 200 Abrakebabra outlets open in the UK in the next five years.

VERA TIGHE started smoking when she was 12 years of age because all the film stars did it.

LOUIS OSBOURNE, the eldest son of self-styled Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, spurned the celebrity route when he married Irish girl Louise Lennon yesterday.