Derry City have one foot in their first Setanta Sports Cup final after a 3-0 semi-final first leg win over Shamrock Rovers at Tallaght Stadium.

AN asylum seeker who stole the identity of a university professor and used it to claim disability benefit will get a suspended sentence next week.

MARGARET CURRAN, 67, from Seaview in Co Kerry, has been caring for her husband John since he suffered a broken neck and became a paraplegic three decades ago in an accident.

A man serving a three-year sentence for attempting to rob a woman at an ATM machine has been given a consecutive four-year sentence for an almost identical series of robberies at ATMs in DART stations.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) has reduced the prison sentence from eight years to six imposed on Kelly Noble for the stabbing to death of a young mother-of-two.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the eight-year prison sentence imposed on Kelly Noble for the stabbing to death of a young mother of two outside a supermarket by two years.

Kelly Noble, the 21-year-old mother of two who stabbed another young mother of two to death outside a supermarket has been jailed for 10 years for her manslaughter.

A young woman who stabbed a teenage mother-of-two to death, with a knife she had asked her child minder to bring to the scene, has been convicted by a jury of manslaughter.

A 21-year-old woman on trial for murder has been convicted by a jury of producing a knife during a confrontation outside a supermarket, which resulted in a teenage mother-of-two being stabbed to death.

The jury in the trial of Kelly Noble, a young woman accused of murdering a teenage mother-of-two outside a supermarket in Co Meath last year was sent to a hotel tonight after failing to reach a

The closing stages have been reached at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Kelly Noble, a young woman accused of murdering a teenage mother of two outside a supermarket in Co Meath last year.

The school principal of a teenage mother of two who was stabbed to death outside a supermarket in Co Meath has given evidence on behalf of the defence at the Central Criminal Court.

A woman on trial for murdering a teenage mother-of-two by stabbing her in the chest outside a supermarket, told gardaí in an interview that she regretted the killing and wished she could turn back the clock.

A childminder has told a murder trial jury how she brought a kitchen knife in a child’s schoolbag to the scene of a fatal stabbing, after receiving a phone call from the accused.

A teenage mother-of-two, who was stabbed to death outside a supermarket, was seen arguing with the woman accused of her murder and repeatedly asked her why she had kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant with her three-year-old son, a witness has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 20-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of teenage mother-of-two Emma McLoughlin (aged 19) who was stabbed to death in Laytown, Co Meath last year.

ONE would have thought that lessons would have been learned following the death of Liam Lawlor, in which scurrilous and inaccurate reports were proliferated to satisfy public appetite for the lowest common denominator in news.

THE historic decision to permit soccer internationals in Croke Park next year is most welcome.

IF you are looking for a coastal Co Cork home, your boat might just have come in. In fact, it could be at the end of the garden.

IARNRÓD Eireann have new posters in carriages asking people not to use their own mobile seating.

JUST coming to the end of its building schedule is a very impressive 3,200 sq ft house, overlooking the sea at Myrtleville in Cork - and, predictably enough, called Seaview.