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The Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) has issued several safety recommendations in relation to a popular traditional sailing boat following a fatal capsizing incident off Cork.

A retired assistant commissioner has said he was not aware of gardaí putting pressure on the DPP to charge Ian Bailey with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Jules Thomas, Ian Bailey's long-term partner, has told the High Court the written memo of her statements to gardaí is full of "omissions, additions, alterations and inventions".

Ian Bailey's evidence has concluded after nine days in the witness box.

Ian Bailey has told the High Court he pulled back from writing articles about Sophie Toscan du Plantier's murder over concerns the story was having a 'profound effect' on the community in West Cork.

A jury has been sworn in for Ian Bailey's action for damages against the State and the garda authorities for wrongful arrest.

The High Court has heard fresh and unexpected phone traffic has been unearthed by the State as it hands over documents Ian Bailey claims will support his allegations of malice against him by the gardaí.

The only son of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier has insisted somebody must stand trial for his mother’s death.

Ian Bailey has made a formal complaint that his phone could have been tapped for 16 years since he first became the prime suspect for the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork in 1996.

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Ian Bailey has indicated that the French authorities may try him in absence, after failing to have him extradited to face questioning in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Schull, Co Cork in 1996.

A REVIEW by the DPP’s office criticising the Garda investigation into the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, and outlining why the DPP decided not to prosecute Ian Bailey only came to the attention of the Department of Justice 10 years after it was completed, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

COUNSEL for Ian Bailey in his appeal against his extradition to France for questioning in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier have claimed the French legal system has no right to exercise authority over the case in Ireland.

A fresh appeal launched by Ian Bailey against his extradition order to France in connection with the killing of French film maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier has got underway.

IAN BAILEY is entitled to rely on recently disclosed material critical of the Garda investigation into the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in his appeal against his extradition to France in connection with her murder.

A BID by Ian Bailey to have his appeal against his extradition re-heard in the High Court will not be considered until January.

LAWYERS for Ian Bailey are seeking to have his appeal against his extradition order returned to the High Court in light of new information received from the state.

LAWYERS for the state have been given two more weeks to file their legal submissions in the appeal by Ian Bailey against an order for his extradition to France in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Lawyers for English journalist Ian Bailey will today make submissions to the High Court in relation to an application to have him extradited to France.

Ian Bailey's extradition hearing has been further delayed today.

The High Court is expected to set a date today for Ian Bailey's extradition hearing in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

THE French judge investigating the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier is said to have issued an arrest warrant for Ian Bailey because he wants to question him about apparent “inconsistencies” between his statements and evidence collected by Gardaí.

IAN BAILEY will fight any attempt to extradite him to France to answer questions about the 1996 murder of French woman Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in west Cork, his solicitor has said.

Two more people have died today in separate road accidents in Cork and Kerry.

The family of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier has reportedly dropped a civil action against the man who was arrested twice in connection with the crime.

The Gardaí have appointed a senior officer to investigate claims that a key witness in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case was pressured into making false statements.

A woman who implicated English journalist Ian Bailey in the murder of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier has reportedly admitted that her statements to Gardaí were false.

THE family of murdered French woman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, are to step up their campaign to catch her killer by seeking to obtain all garda files on the case.

ENGLISH journalist Ian Bailey yesterday failed in his High Court bid to halt a civil case against him in which it is claimed he wrongfully caused the death of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier by assaulting and battering her in County Cork eight years ago.

"I went up there with a rock and bashed her f***ing brains in," Ian Bailey said to a 14-year-old boy in Schull, Co Cork, almost seven years ago in relation to the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, it was claimed today.

The newspapers who are fighting a libel action taken by English journalist Ian Bailey on coverage of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier claimed today that the plaintiff confessed to killing the Frenchwoman with the words, "I did it, I did it, I went too far."

IAN BAILEY assaulted his partner so viciously that her eye was swollen to the size of a grapefruit, clumps of hair were pulled from her head and her lip was severed from her gum.

The funeral takes place today of Aer Lingus chairman Bernie Cahill.