A hoax device that led to the temporary evacuation of a wedding party from a well-known hotel outside Cork city is believed to have been planted in an effort to intimidate one of the guests.

Ireland’s national circus has threatened legal action against a rival group after gardaí were called to a tents standoff in Cork.

Jurors on the inquest into the 96 Hillsborough disaster deaths have stood at the exact site where most of the Liverpool fans who died in the tragedy lost their lives.

Two men described as “puppets on a string” for a €1.2m drugs operation have each been given a 10-year suspended sentence today.

A woman in her 30s has been killed in a crash in North Dublin.