A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Man guilty of raping student
A Wexford man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of raping a Waterford student near the city centre before Christmas 2004.
Wayne Drought (21), single, of Churchtown, The Hook, Co Wexford, was declared a sex offender under the legislation and remanded in custody for sentence later by Mr Justice Peter Charleton.
The jury of four women and seven men, which spent one night in a hotel, took less than two hours' deliberation to convict Drought of raping the student in a doorway on December 9th, 2004. It was day five of the trial.
Guilty plea in stabbing case
An Englishman who stabbed a colleague during a drunken argument, perforating his bowel will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Steve Warburton (52), from Halifax in West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to assaulting James Manly causing him harm on Talbot Street on January 16th, 2003.
Judge Michael White said Warburton was lucky not to have faced a much more serious charge.
Trial due over Dublin parade riot
A man accused of throwing a road barrier at gardaí during the "Love Ulster" riot in Dublin is to be tried in the District Court.
Anthony Cosgrave (52), Arden View, Tullamore, Co Offaly, is charged with violent disorder in O'Connell Street on February 25th, 2006. He is one of a number of people facing charges arising out of the riot which erupted when Northern Orangemen attempted to march through Dublin's city centre.
Sgt Paul Caffrey told Dublin District Court it was alleged Mr Cosgrave threw a barrier at a number of gardaí.
Youth caught with gun cartridges
A teenager who was caught with 19 shotgun cartridges has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Edward Moore (17) of St Teresa's Gardens, Rialto, pleaded guilty to having the cartridges on North Circular Road on October 5th, 2005.
Families seek bombing inquiry
The families of two teenagers killed in a bombing in Co Cavan more than three decades ago yesterday demanded a fresh inquiry into the killings. Relatives of Patrick Stanley (16) and Geraldine O'Reilly (15), killed in a loyalist car bomb explosion in Belturbet in 1972, insist a widely acknowledged suspect for the atrocity was never questioned.At the unveiling of a memorial in the town to the victims the families claimed the follow-up Garda investigation was botched.- (PA)