Four young friends took delight in imagining all the places their lives would take them, but their promising paths ended in a place of grief and sorrow.

A farm leader warned yesterday that solicitors cannot be allowed to introduce regulations that will ultimately benefit their own members at the expense of people who wish to transfer their property to the next generation.

Electric Picnic is set to feature the Amnesty Stage for the first time, as well as the return of the Puball Gaeilge Irish language stage, it was announced today.

THE bill of costs for the collapsed Paschal Carmody trial has been served on the Irish Examiner and The Irish Times by the Clare GP’s legal team, a court was told yesterday.