A Valentine's night out went "very wrong" after a woman was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and her partner ended up daubing his faeces on a cell wall after he was arrested for public order offences.

The 51-year-old unemployed man had been arrested at Dublin Airport on Wednesday and charged later that day in Bandon garda station.

A woman with 151 previous convictions has been jailed for five months after she stole €900 from a “shy, introverted” man she had befriended on a bus.

Irish hotel resorts have taken the top two places and feature in nine of Europe’s 20 best in the latest survey by Condé Nast Traveler magazine.

Considering the contentious nature of the case, it is perhaps unsurprising that even the make-up of the HSE “clinical review” into Savita Halappanavar’s death has repeatedly been dogged by controversy.

The Government removed three Galway consultants from the inquiry into Savita Halappanavar’s death in a desperate attempt to rescue the investigation — but her family insists it still is not enough.

The husband of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar who died following a miscarriage has called for an independent public inquiry into her death.

A high-level review into the death of pregnant Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar is to begin with interviews and the examination of medical records.

A UK-based professor will head a health service investigation into the death of a pregnant Indian dentist in Ireland as she miscarried.

TOURISM Ireland’s international websites had a record number of hits in quarter one of this year, despite the fall-off in real visitors to our shores.