The girl’s family have praised the staff at the institution she is attending for going ‘above and beyond’.

Brendan O’Meara (62) was refused bail before a special sitting of Ennis District Court on Saturday.

Opposition politicians have encouraged people to protest against proposed changes to Ireland’s system for deploying troops abroad.

A 37-year-old Irish man has allegedly admitted to killing Ms Michalski, a nurse practitioner from Fredonia, New York, accidentally after claiming they became intimate at a rented apartment while on holiday.

Met Éireann said the fine and dry weather in Ireland will continue next week

Police received a report of a motorbike pulling up outside the home overnight.

Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that the 44-year-old woman was ultimately able to obtain citizenship for herself, her husband and other family members arising out of the initial deception.

Jacqueline Connolly has called on the Garda Commissioner to publish the review into the initial investigation.

At Ennis District Court, Judge Alec Gabbett made his comment after a Shannon-based sunbed business, Solcraft Ltd, entered a guilty plea to selling the use of a sunbed at a sunbed premises, Cosmopoli Tan in Shannon to a person under the age of 18.

Thousands participated in 5km walks across 197 locations in Ireland and abroad, raising funds for Pieta, the suicide and self-harm prevention charity.

He has since been released from custody, and a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The assault took place at a residence in Kilcronan View, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.

Cliona Ward, 54, a green-card holder, who has been living legally there for around 30 years, first ran into legal trouble in March after arriving back in the US from a trip to Ireland to visit her ill father in Youghal, Co Cork.

78 per cent still expect the situation to worsen over the next 12 months.

Court and political stories are some of the topics featured on the front pages of Saturday's newspapers.

There are "black holes after black holes" in the €250 million damages case against former head of Irish Nationwide Building Society boss Michael Fingleton, his lawyer has told the High Court

Police said the man died on Thursday in Manor House, north London, and his family have been informed.

Geoffrey Keating (47), with an address at Woodbank Drive, Finglas, Dublin 11 originally pleaded not guilty to criminal damage under the Criminal Damage Act, 1991 in the District Court

Five children with autism have brought separate High Court actions over the Minister for Education’s alleged failure to provide them access to education

A 31-year-old man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, is on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork charged with assaulting his infant daughter