Revenue seized almost three million cigarettes worth €1.6 million during a search of a premises in Newhall, Co Kildare yesterday.

The owner of one of the biggest country estates in Ireland has escaped with a €100 for the illegal felling of 296 ash trees at the estate.

Three cousins facing charges of impersonating gardaí in a robbery on the M7 on Wednesday appeared at Naas District Court yesterday.

Gardaí are expecting the Real IRA to “put on a show” at the funeral of murdered dissident Vincent Ryan.

A Co Clare farmer who told gardaí he had killed the devil has been found guilty of murdering a law student from Co Clare.

A forensic psychiatrist has said that a man accused of murder knew what he was doing was wrong when he killed a student, whom he said was the devil.

A student whose body was found in a barrel on a Clare farm was the victim of a violent and sustained assault and died of severe, extensive trauma to his head, a court has heard.

THE father of the late 21-year-old Ennis man Eoin Ryan has said there are no words to describe the hurt the family is going through.

AN TAISCE was accused of being anti-rural and anti-development after the planning watchdog lodged appeals against four one-off homes across Clare.

With lovely views over the Dublin mountains, this 28-acre farm comes with planning permission for expansion of its equestrian centre.

There are delays on the M7 in Co Kildare today following a crash between a jeep towing a horsebox and a car.

ORIGIN ENTERPRISES said strong demand across its food and agri-nutrition divisions delivered a good first year for the group.

THE €320 million farm machinery industry is in buoyant mood as it braces itself for a three-day shop-window exhibition.

WORK has started on a new €850,000 Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association (FTMTA) Training Centre building at Newhall, Naas, Co Kildare.

A 32-year-old man has died in hospital from injuries he sustained in a crash in Co Kildare last weekend.

A 56-year-old woman has died in a road accident in Co Kildare.