A Good Samaritan who stopped to help a teenage girl who had been injured in a car crash has been left significantly out of pocket after rescue crews dismantled his car to get her out.

James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and Thomas McCarthy are among the poets assembled in a wonderful book of writings inspired by music, says Alan O’Riordan

Sixteen new fire stations will be built and another 10 refurbished over the next five years.

A man who caused the death of a young father and husband by driving dangerously on St Patrick's Day 2010 has had his seven year sentence reduced to five by the Court of Appeal.

Delegates at this conference all wore nametags on cords around their necks — but for around 70 of them, that was the only thing they wore.

And it looks like the weather will be lovely for them.

Drumshanbo in Leitrim may seem “a tidy, quiet, and even sleepy place” but “certainly was not such” around 3.30am one Sunday in September when a Garda claimed to find several people drinking in Monica’s pub, sparking off events ultimately leading to his dismissal, a Supreme Court judge said yesterday as he overturned that dismissal.

A late St Mary’s rally put Leitrim county champions Melvin Gaels out of this year’s competition in Saturday’s hard-fought quarter-final replay at Drumshanbo.

Gortletteragh, Carrigallen, Mohill and either St Mary’s or Melvin Gaels will contest the county’s SFC semi-finals following the quarter-finals played in continuous rain in both Drumshanbo and Cloone.

Glencar/Manor easily defeated Annaduff in Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday by a 1-11 to 0-3 margin.

A pair of Irish 18th century portraits of Captain William Spaight and his wife Millicent Anne Studdert at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon next Tuesday.

Knock shrine bosses have been forced to apologise to a 13-year-old girl from Co Leitrim after she was told her clothing breached a new dress code.

Forest and gorse fires have continued to rage in the west of the country overnight.

AN inter-county footballer is fighting for his life at a Dublin hospital after suffering an accidental head injury in a club game on Saturday evening.

Two men have died on Ireland's roads overnight.

The body of a man has been found in Co Leitrim.

WATERFORD boss John Owens returned to his Leitrim roots to achieve success in Sunday’s NFL Division 4 opener but insisted that the impact of that win will be negated if the Déise fail to beat London next weekend.

IT was meant to be one of Ireland’s best tax relief schemes for investors during the boom. And in a scenic area outside the Leitrim town of Drumshanbo, the apparent low prices for a home in the little estate of Cnoc an Iuir must have been also very attractive for young buyers at the time.

BALLOTING to elect the next president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) began last night. The first votes were cast in more than 70 of the IFA’s 947 branches countrywide.

PLANS are going ahead to reduce the number of local offices being used by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 57 to 16.

A 34-YEAR-OLD dairy and beef producer from near Claremorris, Co Mayo, who has been chosen as Ireland’s Young Farmer of the Year, believes there is a bright future for agriculture.

A CO LEITRIM councillor has initiated legal proceedings against one of the internet’s most popular websites, YouTube, after a video was posted online depicting him as gay.

Ireland’s first Harvest Feast will open in Co Leitrim later today.

An 18-year-old man has died in hospital from injuries he sustained in a road accident in Co Leitrim on St Patrick's weekend.

The dead man who was pulled from the River Shannon yesterday has been identified as John McLaughlin from Macken near Leitrim Village.

GLOBAL hotel group Ramada International plans to have 37 hotels in Ireland by 2007.

Veteran broadcaster Pascal Mooney has taken the first seat in the new Seanad.

There has been a fatal fire at a mobile home in Co Leitrim.