An accountant at Irish Rail was taking home €50,000 a year for little more than half an hour’s work a day after having been demoted from office management, a court has heard.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Darragh Nugent that occurred at Wheatfield Avenue, Clondalkin last Monday have made a further appeal to the public for information.

RACHEL Corrie was 10 years old in 1990 when she made this speech: “I’m here for other children. I’m here because I care. I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because 40,000 people die each day from hunger.

A drug dealer caught with heroin valued €750,000 has been jailed for 12 years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.