Update 10.49pm: Stephen Monaghan has been located safe and well.

If you fancy waking up in a tower then this Kells home is ideal, writes Trish Dromey.

Údarás na Gaeltachta is holding crisis meetings with the directors of a plastics company that was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and then jobs minister Richard Bruton in December 2014.

A 22-year-old man who suffered a brain injury as a child when the car he was in was involved in a collision has settled his High Court action for €5m.

A romantic message penned by a young Irish woman on a €20 note in the hope of re-uniting with a lost love is rapidly going viral.

A UK-based ethnic food producer, Deko Foods Ltd, is to open a base in Co. Meath, creating 20 jobs.

A replica of the Book of Kells has been stolen in Meath, almost as mentalist Keith Barry predicted.

Ten thousand homes were affected by major disruption to the water supply on the northside of Cork City yesterday which forced the closure of at least one school.

Two bodies have been found in the search for two men missing for over a month.

The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has said a new aid map targeting investment and employment in certain parts of Ireland will help to attract multinational companies to set up in regional areas.

A 26km greenway to be developed along a disused railway line skirting the Atlantic along the Ring of Kerry is expected to become an internationally rated tourist attraction.

Fears are continuing that some storm-damaged top beaches in Kerry will not be open to the public at Easter time.

THE people of Waterville, on the Ring of Kerry, proudly describe the village promenade as their gem and are seriously concerned about storm damage to a rock protection barrier laid down in the late 1990s.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

Gardaí investigating the whereabouts of 14-year-old Starr Carew say she has been located.

Gardaí are looking for 14-year-old Starr Carew, who has been missing from Kells since yesterday.

Joseph O’Brien broke Michael Kinane’s record for the number of flat winners ridden in a season in Ireland when registering a spectacular 112/1 treble on Sardinia, Marvellous and Dysios at Navan yesterday.

Nine bearded brothers are travelling home to Co Meath this weekend for a razor-sharp Guinness World Record.

A Co Meath-based auctioneer stands to make more than €100,000 on the back of one of the Government’s latest jobs announcements.

Students from Co Meath who hope to educate teenagers nationwide about organ donation were yesterday named as the Young Social Innovators of the Year 2013.

Twenty-three primary schools across the country are set to lose their Catholic Church patronage, with most likely to transfer to the multi-denominational Educate Together.

Contrary to comments by a Mr Doyle (Letters, Mar 22), Bus Éireann operates a high-frequency commuter service between Kells and Dublin, with services starting from Kells at 5.30am, and going every 15 minutes at peak-times.

Barry Geraghty will make a decision on his William Hill King George VI Chase mount “sooner rather than later” according to trainer Nicky Henderson.

It was one of the most controversial road schemes ever built — but now the M3 motorway is making tens of millions of euro in profits for its private operator.

A disused rail line in Kerry, closed more than 50 years ago, could become a key attraction on the Wild Atlantic Way.

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The process of divesting patronage of schools in 44 areas of the country is to get underway.

A woman in her 40s has died in a road accident in Co Meath this morning.

As the Circuit of Ireland rally gets underway today, Deirdre Reynolds decides to pimp her ride with the latest must-have fashion accessories for boy and gal racers.

Hazardous weather conditions have seen members of the public urged not to rejoin the coastal search for a missing cyclist.

A COMBINATION of pedal power and sheer grit from nearly 6,000 charity fundraisers has helped to raise a huge sum of money for worthy causes.

A 36-year-old man has appeared in court in Roscommon facing 91 charges relating to social welfare fraud.

HOLDERS Skryne failed to make it through to the last eight of the Meath SFC despite defeating already qualified Dunboyne by 0-13 to 0-7 at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann on Saturday evening.

THE report on Monday that HSE Forum South members from Fine Gael are threatening to quit the “talking shop” comes as no surprise. I have attended two meetings of the chairpersons of the four national forums.

BARACK Obama’s and Queen Elizabeth’s visits are a badly-needed boost for financially ailing Ireland and should be welcomed by all.

SQUEEZED out of residential city centre property markets during the boom, thousands of young people eager to get a foot on the property ladder ‘leapfrogged’ to cheaper newly-built housing estates stretching deep into the commuter belt.

FOR the second year in a row a young motorbike rider has died in a practise session for the Kells road races.

A 27-year-old motorbike rider died following a crash during a practice session for a road race, gardaí said today.

KELLS Heritage Centre in Co Meath has closed due to financial constraints and its future is uncertain.