An onlooker to a nightclub brawl has lost his sense of smell after being struck by a security man, a court heard.

Helen Fahey is taking the fight for her autistic son’s “lifeline” benefit to the Dáil this week.

SUB-PRIME lenders are not interested in restructuring mortgage repayments with customers as they are planning to exit the Irish market, it has been claimed.

FOR all culture vultures out there, check out Copenhagen’s Night of Culture on October 10 – an annual event that grants visitors access to venues such as museums, churches, galleries and political institutions.

The panel for the Irish senior men's volleyball squad to travel next month’s European Championships has been announced at the Red Cow Hotel this afternoon.

IN football, as in life, as in the songs of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the big wheel keeps on turning. On a cold, rainy morning in November 2004, I sat with Brian Kerr in the Red Cow Hotel on the outskirts of Dublin and the talk was of a World Cup qualifying campaign involving, amongst others, Ireland, France and the Faroe Islands. Now it’s five years almost to the day, and I’m back in the same venue sitting across from the same man and, once again, the talk is of World Cup qualifying and of Ireland, France and the Faroe Islands.

UP TO 70 jobs are at risk in north Co Dublin because of pay costs, the Irish Farmers Association claimed last night.

A BELFAST-BASED priest who witnessed the IRA decommissioning yesterday said working for peace was like playing in a hurling final that never ends.

A Belfast-based priest who witnessed the IRA decommissioning will be presented with the Tipperary Person of the Year Award today.

A NIGERIAN delegation to a conference on the trafficking of women and children yesterday criticised gardaí after they snubbed the event.

A FIANNA FÁIL councillor has been criticised by the Flood Tribunal yesterday over his failure to make a full discovery of documents relating to the inquiry’s investigation into alleged planning corruption.