The woman was burned with a makeshift blow torch and a heated hammer head, cut with a knife, kicked and punched, had her hair cut off, and was threatened with rape, the court heard.

At a meeting with the Donovan couple last month, Tesco Ireland Ltd representatives were told they would get the horses off if they were 'financially compensated'.

In granting planning permission the planning commission has overturned a refusal by Dublin City Council issued earlier this year.

The junction in Dolphin's Barn, Dublin 12, where a new static speed camera will operate

Christian Aid Ireland welcomed the recommendation as ‘hugely significant’.

The 63-year-old pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault on dates between September 2007 and June 2010 at an address in Cavan. He was jailed for 10 years on Friday.

Victim dragged to park and threatened with death before passers-by raised alarm

Mr Justice Paul Coffey was told on Friday that Fiona Sherry, Simon Sherry’s widow, had settled her case against the HSE over his death for a “substantial” sum.

The defendant has five previous convictions, including for possession of and selling, distributing or advertising child sexual abuse material

Francis Joseph Woods, of Damestown, The Naul, Dublin, pleaded guilty to one count of defrauding the man on a date between August 2007 and November 2007.

Nko Mpase (62) of Golden Ridge Close, Rush, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

US President Donald Trump on Friday said there was a 50/50 chance or perhaps less that the United States would reach a trade agreement with the European Union

Opposition parties came out on Friday afternoon to criticise the government’s record on homelessness.

Mr Burke claimed a member of the three-person appeals panel was a “promoter of transgenderism”. The appeals panel denied his claim.

O'Driscoll's company recorded post-tax profits of €217,379 in the 12 months to the end of August last.

The HSE annual report said that Ireland’s population is ‘ageing faster than any other EU country’.

Newstalk business correspondent Joe Lynam said the 23,000sq/m site would have created more than 500 jobs.

The case follows a Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau (GNCCB) probe.

The defendant pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his granddaughter on five occasions, which took place at addresses in Co Wicklow as well as in his vehicle at unknown locations in Ireland

Firefighters responded to the fire at the pub in the early hours of Friday morning.