An award of €750,000 was made yesterday to a woman who suffered serious injuries when she tripped in what was described as a crater in a road in Skibbereen.

Dublin’s Merrion Square West has retained its status as the capital’s top clamping blackspot for catching motorists without valid parking tickets.

Two men videoed themselves breaking a guitar over a man’s head in the course of an assault so they could show the video to others with drugs debts what could happen to them if they did not pay.

A man who had pornographic images of children as young as 10 on his phone was forced to leave his home because of media reports of these offences, a court has heard.

The High Court has ruled that a 57-year-old man is entitled to a 120-acre farm of a man who turned out to be his biological father.

THE HSE has blamed the recruitment ban for missing today’s deadline for the establishment of a national aero-medical co-ordination centre.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking the public’s help in tracing the whereabouts of a 49-year old woman who has been missing from her home at Townsend St since the weekend.