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Two men who were directed by Judge Mary Devins to publicly apologise to a garda for an arson attack on the perimeter hedge at his private home had their apology, which was published in a local newspaper, described by Judge Devins at Ballina District Court last week as “mealy-mouthed, self-serving, cowardly and weasel words”.

In 1861 Robert O’Hara Burke from Craughwell, Co Galway, made history by becoming the first white man to cross Australia. In a major new series, TG4 will re-tell and retrace Burke’s epic journey.

In the last year, Mick Flannery has gone from part time stone mason to one of Irelands most sought after musicians. Since the release of his critically acclaimed album White Lies he has played a string of sold out shows all over Ireland, been nominated for the Choice album awards and won ‘Best Male’ at the Meteor awards.

Judge David Anderson, sitting in Ballina District Court this week, dealt with a man under the Probation Act in a case he described as “a woman scorned because she did not get alcohol and a man scorned because he did not get the woman”.

A Tipperary woman whose daughter was awarded €4.5m for brain injuries suffered at birth, has settled a second action taken on her own behalf against the HSE and St Luke's General Hospital in Kilkenny.

The widow of a Ballindine man who died after a two-year delay in diagnosing his cancer has received an apology from the HSE.