The court heard the “f..off” incident happened towards the end of a night shift in the early hours of January 27th last when Colm Dunne, of St Laurence's Park, Drogheda, Co Louth, was fixing a faulty self-service flight check-in kiosk

Judge Keenan Johnson described it as a tragic case that has left Thomas Maher "a prisoner in his own body" after the unprovoked, vicious assault.

His previous 60 previous convictions include a conviction for burglary of Ms Keogh’s parents' home and convictions from France which include threatening a former partner.

A third teenager was also found not guilty of false imprisonment of the same girl today

Young diners between the ages of seven and 15 are being offered a free 12-course tasting experience when dining with an adult at Aniar

The Central Criminal Court jury on Tuesday agreed with the prosecution's case that 42-year-old Deirdre Arnold was not an "innocent abroad" and had "decided at every turn" to assist her then-partner McHugh.

The Department of Children had asked religious orders to pay €267 million towards the scheme.

He shed a tear as he told the jury that he wished he could turn back the clock to July 14th, 2023 when his wife Deepa was last alive.

The EU is preparing a package of tariffs to hit the US with in response to 25 per cent levies on steel and aluminium.

The Taoiseach pushed back against whether the Government was partly to blame for governance failures at Children’s Health Ireland.

On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal quashed the man’s original four-and-a-half-year jail term and re-sentenced him to a global term of imprisonment of 12 years.

The GAA official was abducted and murdered by loyalists in Co Derry in 1997

A letter of apology from the hospital was read to the High Court on Tuesday as his family settled for €300,000 an action over the death of Mr Ferris on his 58th birthday.

The study showed that 48 per cent of the Irish population are struggling or languishing

Mr Justice David Nolan also ordered Mr Burke to pay legal costs incurred by Wilson’s Hospital School and the Attorney General in the proceedings

Another group offered to make a charitable donation outside the scheme while five made no offer.

The Council brought a prosecution against the couple for allegedly failing to follow an enforcement order from the Council to remove an unauthorised caravan from the roundabout at Coonagh, Co Limerick.

'Following discussions over recent weeks with the Department for Health, I now wish to step down and provide for an orderly transition to a new chair'

A firefighting operation is expected to remain in place across Tuesday in the Bloody Bridge area.

The surgeries were carried out by a surgeon at Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street hospital.