THE beautician who sparked a labour row when it emerged she was being paid just over €1 an hour to work aboard an Irish Ferries vessel has reached a settlement with the company.

The Killarney Park Hotel has been named the AA Hotel of the Year at a ceremony in the Guinness Gravity Bar in Dublin this evening.

A 58-year-old Scottish man was charged today with the murder of a Waterford woman whose body was found in the boot of her car.

The Conference of Religious in Ireland will decide later today whether to co-operate with the Catholic church’s independent audit of clerical sex abuse allegations.