Man charged with IRA membership in Dublin
A man has appeared before a late-night sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged with membership of the IRA.
Ryan Glennon (24) was arrested this morning as part of an ongoing operation in to dissident republican activity in the Dublin area.
Presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Butler remanded Mr Glennon in custody to appear before the court via video on Friday 31 July.
Man questioned over Wicklow armed robbery
A man was arrested yesterday following an armed robbery at a petrol station in Arklow, Co Wicklow.
The man entered the petrol station at Briggs Lane at around 5pm armed with what is believed to have been a knife and threatened staff before making off with a quantity of money.
In a follow-up search a man aged in his 20s was arrested and questioned at Arklow Garda Station. All the money was recovered.
The man has since been released from custody and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Anglo jury to resume deliberations tomorrow
The jury in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank officials charged with conspiring to hide accounts connected to the bank's former Chairman Sean FitzPatrick from the Revenue Commissioners, will resume its deliberations tomorrow morning.
The six men and five women have been considering their verdicts for almost five hours so far. They will not deliberate this afternoon as one jury member is not available.
Tiarnan O'Mahoney, Anglo's former Chief Operating Officer, Bernard Daly Anglo's former company secretary and Aoife Maguire, a former assistant manager at the bank have denied all the charges.
Irish Water here to stay - Coffey
Minister of State Paudie Coffey has said Irish Water is here to stay and urged people to continue paying their bills.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Coffey said there is no alternative to a national water utility and he was confident Irish Water would pass the Eurostat test in a year's time.
He said the Eurostat decision was a marginal one.
Mr Coffey also said the water conservation grant was here to stay, adding: "It's essential that we continue to establish Irish Water if we're going to ensure a proper service and a proper utility that will serve this economy and the Irish people into the future."
Study finds promising experimental MERS vaccine
An experimental vaccine for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) showed promising results in animal testing, sparking an immune system response that could lead to a vaccine for people, researchers said.
Currently there are no licensed vaccines for MERS, which first appeared in 2012 and has caused numerous scares including a recent deadly outbreak in South Korea.
Vaccinated mice produced antibodies that neutralised MERS strains, according to a study from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The vaccines that caused the largest immune responses in mice were then administered to monkeys who were protected from a serious lung infection characteristic of MERS when given the experimental vaccines and then exposed to a version of the virus, the study said.
Cosby accuser says he didn't realise she was gay
The woman battling Bill Cosby to make public a 2006 settlement of her sexual-assault complaint against him said in court documents that she is a lesbian, despite his sworn assertions that their encounter was consensual and he has a knack for reading women's cues.
The revelation by Andrea Constand who has alleged the comedian tricked her into taking drugs before assaulting her in 2004, came in a legal memorandum filed in federal court in Philadelphia.
In it, Ms Constand's lawyers argue that Mr Cosby, 78, breached the confidentiality clause of their settlement through a series of public comments by his attorneys as they mounted a media campaign seeking to put his "spin" on the widening scandal.
Her attorneys contend Ms Constand's only recourse is for the judge to unseal the settlement and free her of the confidentiality restrictions so she can defend her reputation.
