Gardaí are trying to identify everyone who travelled on the same bus as a college student subjected to a horrific attack as she walked to her digs in Maynooth last Sunday.

Two men have died in separate road accidents in Co Meath and Co Kildare last night.

A Swedish House Mafia fan, who was one of a number of people stabbed and beaten up at the group’s infamous concerts in the Phoenix Park four years ago, has settled his €60,000 damages claim against the organisers.

Homeless and struggling with schizophrenia, the late Vedran Kohut was nonetheless kindness personified, an adventurer, and immediately likeable, writes Alan Jacques.

The body found during a search operation in West Dublin has been identified as that of missing woman Marian Power.

A body has been found in the search for missing woman Marian Power in Dublin.

Nearly €40m of taxpayers' money has been spent on the doomed bid to build the National Children's Hospital at the Mater in Dublin.

A man has died after being shot in Dublin last night.

A 46-year-old man has been seriously injured following a shooting incident in Lucan this evening.

Just before Christmas, the third season finale of gritty TV drama Love/Hate ended in a shower of bullets.

Bosses at Blanchardstown Hospital are being slammed for not getting senior doctors to change how they work, according to the Irish Times.

PATRICK NULTY was tipped as a favourite at the outset to take this strongly working class constituency.

A protest will take place outside Blanchardstown Hospital in Dublin today over fears that Accident and Emergency services could be downgraded.

Two motorcyclists have been killed following separate accidents in Kildare and Mayo.

A RETIRED carpenter involved in seven accidents over a 23-year period has secured €91,463 in High Court damages arising from a violent collision which left him and his 12-year-old son trapped inside their Toyota jeep for 90 minutes with a strong smell of petroleum coming from the crash scene.

A MAN slashed by a burglar at his home in a shocking attack have may to undergo surgery on one of his hands.

A man has been killed in a road crash in County Kildare.

An addict who has been "in and out of jail for the last 13 years" has been given a seven years sentence by Judge Frank O'Donnell for burglary and possessing shotgun ammunition and drugs.

Former boxing world champion Steve Collins has claimed in evidence at his trial for assaulting a National Stadium bouncer that he acted totally in self-defence.

Two thirds of patients forced to wait long periods in accident and emergency are in Dublin.

The Health Service Executive has placed visiting restrictions at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown to contain the spread of the Winter Vomiting Bug.

A 29-year-old man has died in hospital in Co Kildare after falling ill while in garda custody in Naas.

Gardaí investigating two separate shooting incidents in Dublin say they do not believe they are linked, although the two victims did know each other.

LIZ COOPER visits her son’s grave every day and wonders if he would still be alive today had he got the help he so desperately needed.

GARDAÍ were yesterday trying to establish the identity of two Lithuanian men injured in a shooting over the weekend.

A 16-year-old boy has been taken to Blanchardstown Hospital with minor injuries following an alleged assault in West Dublin this afternoon.

Mick Kinane was taken to hospital for X-rays on a suspected broken wrist following a nasty incident at the Curragh today, while Fran Berry has fractured ribs.

A missing 75-year-old woman, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, has been found alive in west County Dublin.

DAVID CASEY was in a Dublin hospital last night with a hip injury following a horror fall at Fairyhouse yesterday.

UP TO 200,000 people in this country don’t know they have diabetes — a potentially fatal condition.

BLAME for the serious overcrowding problems being experienced by acute hospitals rests squarely with the Government, the Irish Nurses’ Organisation insisted yesterday.

A man who died from Legionnaires’ disease caught the bug while viewing a house that was for sale, it emerged today.

Gardai are appealing for witnesses to a hit-and-run accident that occurred in Co Kildare early today.