Fine Arts student Umesh Maharjan, his counsel Declan Doyle SC told the court, was in excruciating, unbearable pain and has been left with "grossly disfiguring" scars.

A director of one of the three creches featured in an RTÉ Prime Time exposé has challenged reports that parents are planning to sue.

Gardaí have begun a criminal investigation into the alleged physical abuse of children which featured in Tuesday’s Prime Time documentary on creches.

BUS ÉIREANN bosses were left red-faced yesterday after the company reported a simulation exercise of a bus crash as a real event.

CORK’S only five-star hotel has beaten off equally sleek competition from around the country to win the title of Automobile Association Hotel of the Year.