A former newspaper news editor has told the High Court she did not consider Ian Bailey was engaging in “black humour” when he told her, “It was me, I did it, I killed her to resurrect my career.”

THE cocaine pulled out of the sea off the coast of west Cork could have netted well in excess of €1 billion on the street.

THE EARLY morning knock on the door of an isolated farmhouse in West Cork didn’t only herald the arrival of air-sea rescue helicopters. It led to the biggest drugs case in the history of the State.