Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is open to “liberalising” licensing rules for taxi and hackney drivers in rural Ireland to address concerns about the impact of new drink-driving laws.

Hundreds of thousands of Irish people will be anxiously watching their TV sets in a couple of hours time, when Europe's analogue TV signal is turned off.

THE new home defence bill has shifted the balance of rights back to the house owner “where it should always have been”, say gardaí.