A man was arrested on the Sligo campus of Atlantic Technological University (ATU) this afternoon following an incident there. It is understood that the man was brandishing a knife and threatened students. ATU confirmed there was a “concerning incident” on the campus grounds this afternoon in which “a member of …

Complaints against An Post and Free Now are among those to have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland. The ASAI upheld complaints against six companies in its latest bulletin. Three of the six cases were upheld in full and three of the six cases were upheld in …

The owners of a trampoline park in Britain where 11 people broke their backs and hundreds more were left injured have been fined and ordered to do community service. David Elliot Shuttleworth, 34, and Matthew Melling, 33, were the directors of Flip Out Chester, where a customer was injured a …

Transport Infrastucture Ireland (TII) has said it “could have done more” to keep residents in Dublin updated with information related to the Metrolink project. It follows stinging criticism of the body from residents who claim that TII have been “elusive, dismissive and economic with the facts”. Anne Meehan, from Prospect …

A student at the National College of Ireland in Dublin choked to death after eating food while lying in bed, an inquest has heard. A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court was told that Zuwei Yang, a 22-year-old Chinese student, suffered a cardiac arrest after struggling to breathe in his …

A Dublin man who carried out “a deliberate and calculated campaign” of rape and sexual abuse of a “very vulnerable teenager” has been jailed for 12 years. Daniel Martin, 47, formerly of Old County Road, Crumlin, was convicted following a Central Criminal Court last December of 11 counts of serious …

Homeowners affected by defective blocks are being “hoodwinked” by Government “rhetoric”, an Oireachtas committee has heard. Angela Ward of the Donegal Mica Action Group accused the Government of deploying a deliberate strategy of repeating statements to achieve an “illusory truth effect”. The State’s €3 billion defective concrete blocks grant scheme …

A volunteer at the Samaritans told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that she was “shook up” after she took a call from a man who told her bombs had been planted in the home of the Minister for Justice three years ago. Michael Murray, 52, formerly of Seafield Road in …

A High Court judge has said it is “extremely unsatisfactory” that secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is still being paid his full salary while the State is also incurring the costs of his continued imprisonment in Mountjoy Prison. Mr Justice Mark Sanfey made his remarks while reviewing Mr Burke’s imprisonment …

Irish peacekeepers in South Lebanon were sent to bunkers this morning after rocket fire close to Camp Shamrock. The 332 Irish peacekeepers working in the area took shelter shortly before 8am, when 37 rockets were fired from a site just 950m away from Camp Shamrock directed towards Israel. Loud explosions …