Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has paid tribute to David Doyle, former Secretary-General of the Department of Finance, who has died.

Gardaí have arrested 11 people following searches in 15 locations in County Meath.

The 23-year-old attacking midfielder joined the Buddies last week after leaving League of Ireland champions Dundalk.

Faeces, broken glass and cracked bathroom tiles were observed by health inspectors at a HSE-run residential care homes which caters to 32 adults with autism.

Residential property prices rose by 2% in the year to June compared to 2.6% in May, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Its operators have applied for permission to increase the amount of rubbish processed at the plant by 15% to 690,000 tonnes.

Drugs worth more than €400,000 have been discovered in County Meath.

Zilvinas Duda, 31, has been missing from the Ongar area of Dublin 15 since last Saturday, July 13.

Three senior Irish Examiner journalists and an Echo reporter were among the winners of this year's Justice Media Awards.

Students have reacted with upset and frustration to the listening section of the higher level Leaving Cert Spanish exam, which they said included “mumbling”, “cut-off sentences” and “skipped in parts”.

Gardaí are appealing for the public's help in finding a missing man in County Louth.

In the summer of 1990 the biggest heavy metal band in the world stood at a crossroads.

Real IRA leader who plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles in 2015 has died in prison.

Publishing details of every nurse sanctioned by their regulatory body could lead some to take their own lives or consider doing so, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Nurses were the most assaulted group of workers in HSE hospitals last year, accounting for three in five of all recorded incidents.

It has emerged that Gardaí prevented an ATM digger theft in Carlingford, County Louth over St Patrick’s weekend.

The gang behind the theft of two ATMs in Kells in County Meath tried to use homemade spikes to stop gardaí pursuing them.

Tiger Roll, trained by Gordon Elliott and ridden by Davy Russell, has won the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree for the second year in a row.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested and is being held at Ashbourne Garda Station.

A major drug trafficking outfit recently hit by the Criminal Assets Bureau is suspected of being behind the importation of a massive haul of cocaine intercepted by Garda gang units.

A woman has died following a house fire in County Meath.

From thatched cottages to light houses to gypsy-style caravans, Ciara McDonnell rounds up some of Ireland’s most unique holiday homes.

A 56-year-old man is due in court this morning in connection with a drugs seizure in County Meath.

This afternoon's meeting at Fairyhouse has been abandoned because of a waterlogged track.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following the death of a 17-year-old cyclist in County Meath yesterday.

London is expected to be painted green tomorrow.

Ireland's domination of the 2018 Cheltenham Festival reached new heights on St Patrick's Thursday, when trainers from the Emerald Isle saddled the first six winners to wrap up the BetBright Cup from Great Britain with a day to spare.

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There is a call for lotto players in County Meath to check their tickets as someone could have a winning ticket worth half a million euro.

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A man has been arrested in County Meath following the discovery of €25,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis.

Urgh.

Four men are due in court charged in connection with the murder of Peter Butterly.

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.

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

A single vehicle crash in County Meath has claimed the life of a man in his 50s.

Typical.

The Special Criminal Court trial of a Louth man accused of IRA membership has heard that two "very well made" and "viable" improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found in a car that gardai had stopped on the N52 in County Meath.

MCD also stressed that crowd surfing and moshing not permitted at the venue.

A pedestrian in his 20s has been killed following a hit-and-run in County Meath.

Two men have been arrested by Gardaí in County Meath as part of Operation Thor.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing their investigations after a taxi driver was stabbed during a car jacking in Swords over the weekend

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission say they are investigating last night's fatal collision on the N2 in County Meath.

Dropped back to five furlongs for the first time, Fort Del Oro stamped herself as another potentially high-class sprinter from Eddie Lynam’s yard in County Meath when proving an emphatic winner of the listed Woodlands Stakes in Naas last evening.