The first thing that hits you on entering the Meeting House Restaurant – which opened very quietly before the end of last year – is the noise.

AN 81% sales record was achieved at last week’s Munster Property Auction, with 21 out or 26 lots selling at Cork’s Rochestown Park Hotel. It comprised 16 Cork lots, five from Kerry, three from Limerick and one apiece from counties Waterford and Tipperary.

Two men have been jailed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for attacking a group in Temple Bar almost four years ago.

Gardaí investigating an assault in Dublin city centre last week, after which a taxi driver died, are renewing an appeal for information.