Staff at Cloverhill observed a drone flying over the prison

A jury at the Central Criminal Court convicted Riad Hamzi (51) last December of a single count of rape

The man, aged in his 30s, is being treated in Beaumont Hospital.

There were emotional scenes in court as Cameron Cooper (23) was jailed for the hit-and-run death of 21-year-old Dylan Killalee Maher.

Last week, Keith O'Brien told the court he had destroyed a phone a judge had ordered him to preserve.

Mr Justice David Holland last October refused the application for an injunction restraining the former Crown Paints warehouse from being developed into accommodation for up to 741 international protection applicants.

The operation by the GNDOCB was supported by the Emergency Response Unit, Regional Armed Support Unit, Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (GNBCI) and the Dublin Crime Response Team (DCRT).

Mr Justice Paul McDermott was referring to the case of a now 23-year-old who pleaded guilty in 2019 to attempting to murder Stephanie Ng on December 23, 2017.

Fingal County Council said 10 individuals owed more than €56,000 for unpaid parking tickets.

Gabriel Makhlouf, governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, said that forecasting in a time of ‘extreme uncertainty’ is challenging.

Stephen Carberry (47) of Sandymount Avenue, Dublin 4 and Glen Bride (31) of Mount Olive Park, Kilbarrick, Dublin 5 appeared briefly before the three-judge, non-jury court this morning

Regin Parithapara Rajan pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ms Dinamani contrary to Common Law when he was arraigned on Monday morning.

Several of the schools across the counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone and Antrim closed as a precaution on Monday morning.

In response to the unions' release, the HSE said that Bernard Gloster has asked the HSE's National Employee Relations Service to request the Work Relations Commission to intervene in the threatened industrial action.

Central Bank of Ireland governor Gabriel Makhlouf said the ‘number one’ problem with housing is planning.

The drugs seized will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.

The man had also been due to stand trial on a charge of possessing child sexual abuse material, known in law as child pornography.

Unfortunately, Maura Heffernan is not expected to recover from the incident.

Waterford Fire Service was alerted to a fire in a commercial premises on Poleberry Link Road at around 6.20pm on Sunday, March 23rd.

A lack of role models was cited as lacking by half of female professionals, with 22 per cent saying they have no such examples, and 30 per cent mentioning that they ‘hardly ever’ encounter them.