Man jailed over cancer insurance fraud

"A consultant surgeon has been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding two insurance companies through a bogus breast cancer claim. Emad Massoud, 52, from Ratoath in Co Meath, used a cancerous tissue sample from his mother-in-law to claim that his wife had...

Irish house prices fall by 3.3% since start of year

"House prices fell again in August bringing the rate of decline to 3.3 per cent since the start of the year, according to the latest edition of permanent tsb / ESRI House price index. The index shows house prices nationally fell 0.3 per cent in August following on from a 0.4...