The former high profile sports journalist Tom Humphries has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for grooming and sexually abusing a teenage girl.

Sunday Times journalist David Walsh has defended his decision to write a character reference for Tom Humphries, the former Irish Times journalist convicted of grooming a teenage girl to engage in sexual acts.

The sentencing of sports journalist Tom Humphries for the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child has been adjourned to October.

On April 14, A. Leary of Sutton, Dublin wrote that it was an ordeal explaining our history to foreigners.

Dr Maeve Hillery, the wife of former president Patrick, has died at the age of 91.

Few people would relish taking on such rugby greats as Syd Millar, Ronnie Dawson and Tom Kiernan, but a pensioner with pluck has in the Circuit Civil Court.

Mystery passengers hired by Ryanair to assess the sales procedures of the airline’s cabin crew identified serious safety breaches by one employee during two flights in 2009.

“IF you have come here this morning for the funeral of a cripple, you have come to the wrong place,” the chief celebrant of yesterday’s requiem Mass for author Christopher Nolan warned

A Dublin businessman who made a record €9m payment to the Revenue for unpaid taxes was today jailed for three months for tax evasion.

IT was a case of mixed emotions for the Irish last weekend at the Samsung Super League Nations Cup Show in La Baule, France, where early domination disipated on the final day in the wake of a supreme performance by the host team.

GARDAÍ are continuing to investigate the suspicious death of a 32-year-old woman who was found lying at the bottom of a stairs with head and neck injuries.