The High Court has ruled that Apple's data centre in Athenry can go ahead.

A disqualified driver who was “two and a half times over the limit” when he crashed an uninsured, unroadworthy, and overloaded car, has moved to appeal his 10-year prison sentence for dangerous driving causing death.

A teenager drowned when the speeding, overcrowded car in which he had been a front-seat passenger lost control and ended up in a waterlogged drain.

A Donegal man who sued an entertainments company called Funky Monkey for alleged negligence over a bucking bronco was described as “acting the maggot” at Sligo High Court.

Title favourites Tourlestrane will square off against south Sligo neighbours Tubbercurry in the SFC final following their respective decisive semi-final victories at the weekend.

Despite only scoring two second-half points, defending champions Curry hung on for a one-point win over Bunnanadden, 3-8 to 3-7, in a thrilling Sligo SFC Group A tie at Ballymote on Saturday as Anthony Brennan’s side head for the last eight as section winners.

A goal in each half from Danny O’Hara and Conor McIntyre ensured defending champions Curry made a successful start to the Sligo SFC campaign on Saturday night when they overcame Eastern Harps’ dogged challenge, 2-11 to 0-15, at Bunnanadden in a Group ‘A’ fixture.

An animal welfare charity, given three months to “clean up its act”, has said it complied with all proposals put forward in an independent probe.

Dead dogs at a Cork shelter are not being stored properly, according to a leaked report into the Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Dogs Trust, one of the largest dog welfare charities in Europe, has offered to take over the centre operated by the Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

One of Cork’s leading animal welfare organisation has agreed to undergo an independent review in a bid to quash a damaging campaign about its activities.

A Dublin landlord has been fined €11,550 for not registering rental properties.

TWO businessmen said to have insufficient funds to complete a e3.57 million contract to buy a shareholding in a company have been ordered by the Commercial Court to pay the €2.15m balance of the amount due under the contract.

Voice messages left on Rachel O'Reilly's mobile phone on the day she was brutally murdered were read out in court today.