Independent Cllr Sharon Keogan was shaken this morning but is thankful that the fire failed to fully ignite, preventing any harm to residents living in the upstairs of the premises.

It was the prosecution's case that DNA evidence linked Darren Weldon to a number plate found in the debris of a car bomb which exploded outside Newry courthouse on February 22, 2010.

Drugs worth €127,000 have been seized by gardaí after a cannabis grow house was discovered in Co Meath.

A 7-year-old boy who fell in love with Michael Jackson while recovering from open heart surgery, had a ‘Thriller’ time at the Michael Jackson tribute show at the Gaiety Theatre this week.

‘Everybody knew Gaybo the length and breadth of the country and beyond’ - Gabriel Howard, a legendary figure in Irish cycling, passed away earlier this month following a farm accident, writes Paul Fitzpatrick

Seamus McGrane was recorded in a pub in Dublin in April, 2015, a month before the prince’s visit to Ireland, say Diarmaid Mac Dermott and Daniel Hickey

Gardai are investigating if a personal dispute is behind a shooting in Co Meath last night.

Gardaí have found a gun and a partially burnt out car close to the scene of last night’s shooting in Stamullen in Co Meath.

Update 12.12pm The Housing Minister has said the Government will not be providing any compensation to businesses affected by the water crisis in the North East.

A man has appeared in court in connection with a drugs seizure in Meath worth €3.8m.

Latest: Gardai have said there is no indication yet that the Kinahan cartel was behind a major drugs seizure in Co Meath which the force confirmed this afternoon has netted €3.8 million worth of cannabis and ecstasy.

An Irish road racer has died following a crash during a qualifying session at the Isle of Man TT Races.

A van driver has been assaulted and robbed in Co. Meath.

A boot containing a foot found on a Dublin beach was identified as that of a man who’d gone missing 10 months earlier.

A Dublin youth was “smirking and then ran off” after he ploughed into a car carrying two young children, a court was told yesterday.

Champion Hurdle-winning trainer Colm Murphy savoured a welcome change of luck when Catalaunian Fields landed the Thatch Bar Katies Kitchen Maiden Hurdle in Bellewstown last night.

Families of former residents of a care facility which was heavily criticised by a HIQA report have been speaking out this morning.

A Meath care home for intellectually disabled adults has been ordered to cease admissions because of serious concerns about overuse of physical restraint including an incident where a resident turned blue from lack of oxygen.

The inhuman, criminal abuse uncovered by RTÉ at Áras Attracta in Swinford, Co Mayo, focuses on a small group of workers entrusted with the care of a number of vulnerable people. However it shames us all and is an appalling indictment of our health service, especially those responsible for its management.

A centre in Co Meath for people with intellectual disabilities says it has serious concerns about the accuracy of a damning HIQA report.

A damning new report into another care home has been released.

Hotels in Tipperary and Wexford were among the 12 closure orders issued to food businesses last month, according to the latest figures from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.

Contracts worth €10m were secured during a trade mission to Australia, Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton has announced.

Will Ireland do right by all those it has failed? asks Claire McGettrick.

No full-scale audit has ever been carried out into tens of thousands of files given to the State by the religious orders which ran Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes.

Newstalk has reported that experimental drug trials were conducted on at least 290 children across 10 mother-and-baby homes in the 1960s and 70s.

Two Benedictine monks from the US are building a new community in Ireland, writes Louise Roseingrave

An anonymous donor from the Netherlands has pledged €100,000 to save an Irish monastery.

On her first ride on the unique track, Jane Mangan partnered he Peter Fahey-trained mare Saratoga Baby to an emphatic win in the Marquees Nationwide Amateur Handicap at sunny Laytown yesterday.

Meath champions Navan O’Mahonys strolled through to the county SFC quarter-finals with a 0-10 to 0-5 victory over Seneschalstown in yesterday’s fourth-round clash at Stamullen.

It’s Meath for marriage, South Dublin for singletons, and Killybegs for Catholicism.

A former flight attendant has been given a suspended sentence after he was caught carrying over €20,000 worth of ecstasy in a schoolbag in Dublin.

The Government faces criticism over its decision to reduce polling hours for the Meath East by-election after a dismal turnout by voters at count centres.

Two Meath forwards failed to convert penalties in the third round of the county SFC at the weekend but both of their sides gained victories to extend 100% winning records.

STUDENTS of racing could well apply the sametechniques used in selecting horses to pick out winners of fashion competitions.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) is to spend €200,000 on signs to direct motorists to services in towns and cities in response to criticism over the lack of service stations and lay-bys on the country’s motorway network.

TEAGASC open days on profitable commercial tillage farms could give attendees ideas on how to improve performance and negotiate their way through their current economic challenges.

BRIAN KENNEALLY goes to the line for today’s opening stage of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan in Killorglin with his sights firmly set on a third victory in the race.

THE High Court has further remanded on bail three men wanted in Lithuania on weapons and terrorism charges.

THE fiancé of RTÉ racing commentator Tracey Piggott has described the well-known broadcaster as his “guardian angel” for standing by him after a court found he had mistreated a horse.

UNDER the transport investment programme, Transport 21, Navan's rail link is due to be reinstated by 2015.

Around 1,000 homes in Co Meath are suffering a third night without water tonight.

Colin Whelan thought he could evade capture and prison - but he was wrong, write John Breslin and Siobhan Gaffney.

A grieving mother said today she would not bear a grudge against the man who killed her daughter and then fled to Spain to escape.

A fire in a barn in east Meath has killed 20 cattle and destroyed up to 500 bales of hay.