A high-risk sex offender who has been missing since last week, has been detained by police in Garvagh, County Londonderry. Robert Wallace, 78, who was residing in Belfast had not been seen since Thursday morning, despite attempts to locate him.

A 38-year-old man is still being questioned by gardaí following the seizure of cannabis in Dublin. In excess of 160kg of cannabis with a potential street value of €1.2m was

The Government is to crack down on teen alcohol abuse, following the publication of the latest European survey. The report shows we have one of the highest rates of binge-drinking among 15-year-olds. Ireland ranks third out of 33 surveyed countries.

The government has announced it has asked a Senior Counsel to examine files in the case of Cynthia Owen to see if further action is required. Earlier this month an inquest ruled that Ms Owen was the mother of a baby girl found stabbed to death in Dun Laoghaire in 1973. Cynthia Owen had called for a full public inquiry into the case.

CURA, the Catholic Church’s crisis pregnancy counselling service, is holding its 30th annual conference this weekend. The organisation is currently locked in negotiations with the state-run Crisis Pregnancy Agency, who funds CURA to the tune of about €600,000 a year.

A former president of the Irish Methodist Church wept yesterday after being spared a prison sentence following an admission that he sexually abused a schoolboy over four decades ago.

The proprietors of the Enniscrone private nursing home – issued with a damning report by the HSE after an unannounced inspection – claim they face closure if forced to implement major changes ordered within the required time-frame.

Police were last night hunting for a high risk sex offender who has gone on the run for the second time in seven months. The public alarm was raised after 78-year-old Robert Simpson Wallace, who police said poses a serious risk to women and children, breached his probation conditions by going missing on Thursday.

Parents throughout Newry and Mourne have been warned to be vigilant after a bogus health visitor tried to get into a house in Camlough.

The jury in the trial of a north County Dublin man accused of sexually abusing his daughter over a nine year period will resume its deliberations today having been sent to a hotel for the night.