The Diocese of Kerry handled one allegation of sexual abuse of a child by the former Bishop Eamon Casey and the person involved was given counselling, the diocese has confirmed.

A NEW energy research project at the Teagasc Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, aims to reduce the Irish dairy farmers’ electricity consumption and their carbon footprint.

An investigation into the alleged misconduct of a senior civil servant in the North will be carried out by a retired leading official in the Welsh Assembly, it was announced today.

The Minister for Enterprise, Micheál Martin, has announced that Irish firms who participated in the Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission to South Africa will win €35m worth of contracts over the next two years.

THE Irish Examiner’s circulation continues to rise, selling an extra 600 copies a day with more than 210,000 people reading the paper daily, two key surveys on the Irish newspaper industry reveal.