Alexander Pacteau sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Karen Buckley
The family of Karen Buckley say they mourn her loss every day and hope the "truly evil coward" who killed her spends every day in prison haunted by what he did.
Alexander Pacteau, 21, will serve a minimum of 23 years in prison for murdering the Cork student on a night out in Glasgow.
Sentencing him, Judge Lady Rae said: "I find it extremely difficult to find words appropriate to describe the dreadful crime to which you pleaded guilty...Within a matter of minutes, for some inexplicable reason, you destroyed her young life".
In an emotional statement, the Buckley family said: "Today's life sentence will not bring our beautiful Karen back. Our little angel has been taken from us forever in the cruellest of ways. We mourn for her every day.
Enda Kenny says ISIS "want to blow up Newgrange"
The Taoiseach says refugees must be allowed to seek asylum in Ireland to escape islamic State, also referred to as ISIS, who he says want to "blow up Newgrange".
Enda Kenny says the Co Meath monument, and the Rock of Cashel, would be offensive to Islamic State jihadists.
Speaking to reporters today, he said: "Look at what's happened in Syria with the growth of ISIS. Purely from the historical point of view, they want to blow up Newgrange and the Rock of Cashel, they want children shooting others in the head – this is horrendous."
Parents reunited with baby who was switched at birth
A British man and his wife have been reunited with their baby son after DNA tests confirmed their suspicion that he had been switched at birth in El Salvador.
Richard Cushworth and his wife Mercedes Casanellas feared their child could have been exchanged and sold to human traffickers after they became concerned the child they had been given had darker skin.
"The refugees just started marching towards Budapest" - Shona Murray reports from the front line
Chaotic scenes emerged at the Hungarian border with Serbia yesterday - as police clashed with refugees who were trying to pass into the country and on the Germany and Austria.
Hungarian authorities prevented over 2,000 people from leaving the border, and the frustrated crowd responded by tearing down the police cordon and marching towards Budapest.
Over 22,000 went to Germany alone at the weekend, and France has agreed to take in 24,000 over the next two years.
Did you know Ireland second-row Donnacha Ryan has been studying geology?
The Munster stalwart overcame an injury-ravaged period in his career to seal a place in Joe Schmidt's Rugby World Cup squad and told Off The Ball's Dave McIntyre all about his geology interest.
"The first lecture said geology is the study of time and pressure and I had plenty of time and I was under serious pressure to get myself a job," he joked, before adding that he had an interest in furthering his knowledge on the commodites side of things.
