Three sites, all in East Cork, have now been identified as potential locations for a proposed retail outlet centre (ROC) with much more detailed study required on each location before the development is factored into any development plans.

The next Sunday Songbook singalong show at the Everyman features the tunes of Vera Lynn, writes Cathy Desmond.

Two personal injury claims by James Jordan, husband of Dublin Wives television star Jo Jo Jordan, for damages totalling €120,000 have been thrown out by a judge.

For steam enthusiasts, 2016 promises to be the most exciting year for a decade as the most famous locomotive in the world returns to the railway.

The housing minister has ordered a fresh probe into the planning system in six local authorities.

A man's appeal of an assault conviction at the centre of a dispute, which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent, was described today as “a matter of some delicacy” and adjourned until October.

THE brightest school children are also those most likely to suffer a serious mental illness as adults, research has shown.

The brightest schoolchildren are also those most likely to suffer a serious mental illness as adults, research has shown.

A MAN described as a nuisance to Dungarvan was jailed for three years yesterday for stabbing a man he claimed had “propositioned” him during a party.

A Kilkenny roofer who transported cocaine valued over €200,000 because of his so-called "drugs debt" to criminals will be sentenced later by Judge Rory MacCabe.

A fifth Longford man has walked free after being acquitted by a jury of committing violent disorder arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

A fourth Longford man has been declared not guilty of violent disorder at the trial arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

Charges alleging two Longford men were part of an armed group who ambushed a wedding party and shot two passengers have been withdrawn from a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Wicklow resident who hit a garda over the head with a glass bottle while another garda was trying to arrest his younger sister has today been given community service instead of a jail term.

A Mayo man whose companion used a garrote on a taxi driver when they robbed him at a halting site has been jailed for three years by Judge Rory Maccabe at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.