Attempts to explore the sex life of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey and her husband provoked fierce clashes at the trial of two men accused of the crime.
Restructuring of mortgages has done little to solve the mortgage crisis as more than half of all borrowers still cannot afford to meet repayments after their loans have been restructured.
Ticketless Irish fans intent on travelling to Poland next month have been given a boost by the prediction that tickets for some games could flood back onto the market.
Images of suspected child abductors and missing children may be flashed up on social networking and media sites as part of a new emergency child rescue system.
A sizeable minority of economists believe a yes vote on the fiscal treaty will do little to create jobs.
Customs officials have seized 20 signal jammers used by criminals to disrupt monitored security alarms in the first four months of this year.
Sitting in his little1.4-litre Ford, Eamonn McCafferty watched the high-powered rally cars hurtling away from the start line in an almost deafening roar.
The Department of Education is investigating why seven primary teachers have had consistent work since they retired in February.
Four days into the trial and the judge had clearly had enough.
Cork, Kerry, and Tipperary could all lose Dáil seats under a redrawing ofconstituency boundaries.
The European Commission has confirmed that Ireland will be allowed to tailor its own rules for the critical budget restraints built into the fiscal compact treaty.
Around 400 teachers of maths will go back to college in September to get properly qualified to take classes in the subject, a year after the courses were first announced.
New Beginning, the not-for-profit group which has been helping struggling homeowners battle a tide of house repossessions, is to open a specialist insolvency service in the summer.
School discipline rules should not be changed for sixth-year students involved in serious misbehaviour or whose pranks get out of hand, a principals’ leader has claimed.
Gardaí are examining whether or not they can take a criminal prosecution against double killer John Gallagher, who voluntarily returned to the Central Mental Hospital on May 14 after 12 years on the run.
Vandals attacked a plaque erected to a garda killed in the line of duty and then dumped it outside his girlfriend’s house.
Over one in four calls for help to the Society of St Vincent de Paul last year were from people who had not previously contacted the charity.
A New York bride who faked having terminal cancer to swindle well-wishers into funding her dream wedding and honeymoon to the Caribbean has been ordered to repay over $13,000 (€10,000) to her victims, prosecutors said.
Revenue’s Customs Service officers, monitoring the illegal importation of cigarettes, hit an “ecstasy jackpot” when they tracked the contraband to a house in Cork city.
Gerry Adams has said he intends staying on as the leader of Sinn Féin until the next general election.
Two teenagers were last night being questioned in relation to the death of a 22-year-old who was found dead in an abandoned building last Monday.
Irish firms are at the cutting edge of European Space Agency programmes creating technologies capable of performing in the extreme environment of space.
A mother of 15 who rarely gets out went “hell for leather” in a drunken row with another woman in Ballincollig, Co Cork, a court has heard.
The yes campaign looks solidly on track to win the fiscal treaty referendum, according to the latest opinion poll.
Today FM’s Shave or Dye annual charity drive has raised a phenomenal €2m for the Irish Cancer Society this year.
Two cancer patients in their 30s will become the first beneficiaries of a new liver cancer treatment which has been developed on their doorstep.
The angry exchanges on the fourth day of the trial of two men for the murder of Michaela McAreavey developed after police Sergeant Govinder Ramasawmy told the court that he gave a “sex guide” manual to husband John three days after his wife was killed, along with 12 other possessions from their room in the luxury hotel.
There was an almost poignant synergy of circumstances evident as Taoiseach Enda Kenny looked out across Cobh harbour.
More than 140 jobs are to be created in the seafood processing industry following significant investment by 21 Irish seafood companies.
A Fine Gael senator is facing separate Seanad and party investigations after failing to provide a tax clearance certificate to the State’s ethics watchdog.
Four Irish catwalk queens have told how they felt on top of the world when they made the agonising slog to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Undeterred Jedward fans are expected to descend on Dublin Airport tomorrow evening to welcome their high-haired heroes home from Azerbaijan.
A survivor of last year’s Manx2 plane crash can expect a hero’s welcome in Cork today when he completes a charity cycle which followed the same route as the doomed flight.
The Lenehans are looking to a brighter future after a ‘torturous’ case against the HSE on behalf of their daughter, writes Noel Baker
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