A 39-year-old Dublin man accused of putting an imitation handgun to a shopkeeper’s head before being disarmed by an off-duty garda, has been refused bail.

O’Byrne Cup - Offaly 0-13 Louth 1-9: A late Louth rally came up short as Offaly rang in the new year with a win in Darver. 

A taxi driver who attacked a passenger with a meat cleaver after refusing to give the victim his change has been jailed for three years.

A promise made to a mother who lost her son to suicide will be honoured at a special conference on mental health and suicide this coming weekend.

Tyrone 1-27 Offaly 0-8

As the clock whittled down in the dying minutes of normal time, Kieran Donaghy suddenly stopped with ball in hand short of the halfway line in front of the Páirc Esler stand.

ABOUT 200 jobs will be created during the construction of a €10.5 million multi-purpose sports arena at Waterford Institute of Technology.

WESTMEATH qualified for the Leinster Under-21 football semi-final after a hard earned six-point victory over Offaly in very windy conditions in Páirc Ciaran, Athlone, last night.

ALCOHOL-RELATED problems are costing the State €2.65 billion a year but the true extent of the country’s binge drinking problems will only become apparent in 10 years’ time, an Accident and Emergency specialist has warned.

ALCOHOL is responsible for almost a third of all injuries treated in A&E departments, a new study published today reveals.

A close relative of a murder suspect who jumped bail and absconded to Spain has been ordered to pay €1,000 for breach of bail by a judge at the Central Criminal court today.

AS many as three quarters of admissions to the country’s largest accident and emergency departments at night are drink related, a study has found.

TOUR operators don’t expect the SARS threat to affect demand for sun holidays this summer.

Notts County have completed the signing of Republic of Ireland Under-16 international Shane McFaul.