The county's new manager will have to make do without 2018 captain Ross King and club hurler of the year Ciaran Collier. Cahir Healy is also expected to switch to the football panel.

A 31-year-old man has been sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court accused of the murder of his partner, Rita Apine, in her Co Kilkenny home.

The partner of a mother, aged 29, who was fatally injured last Sunday at her home, has been remanded in custody after being charged with her murder.

A judge has excoriated the State, local authorities, and dog wardens for their blind indifference to dangerous dogs being allowed to roam around off-lead and unmuzzled in public.

A teenager has denied murdering seven-year-old Katie Rough.

A man who lent the convicted Boston Marathon bomber the gun used to kill a police officer three days after the deadly 2013 attack was set to be released from jail after a judge sentenced him to time served for drug and firearms charges.

BALLYMORE Properties has not gone away.

OTC’s touring production of The Elixir of Love is set in a university , writes Jo Kerrigan

He chose Iron Man to help little Collier "feel brave".

Baby Collier was born prematurely back in July and has been in the neonatal unit of the hospital ever since so his dad Eric Hart wanted to do something special for his first Hallowe’en. 

Fury (15A) stars Brad Pitt as Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier, the commander of a US Army Sherman tank operating in Nazi Germany during the last months of the Third Reich’s last stand. 

This week, Brad Pitt plays a WWII tank sergeant in Fury, the comedy Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, raucous comedy This is Where I Leave You, computer-animated fantasy The Book of Life, romcom Love, Rosie, and Australian horror The Babadook.

A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to charges of trafficking heroin and possessing an illegal handgun in connection with the April 2013 bombings.

A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to have provided the handgun used to kill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer during the manhunt.

A New York newspaper has been heavily criticised after it used the N-word in the headline of an opinion piece about US President Barack Obama.

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Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa has spoken out in support of Dundalk singer Tara Erraught after a series of reviews criticised her appearance.

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'Hardy Bucks' actor Martin Maloney has pleaded not guilty to attacking two bouncers following a row about a queue while he was making an appearance at a popular Dublin pub.

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Free legal aid was granted today to “Hardy Bucks” actor Martin Maloney, who is accused of attacking three men in a popular Dublin.

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Actor Martin Maloney, one of the stars of cult comedy show 'Hardy Bucks', has appeared in court accused of attacking three men in a popular Dublin pub last year.

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The CIA has confirmed it wanted one of the Boston bombing suspects placed on a terrorist database 18 months ago.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, broke their cover hours after authorities released photographs of the suspects.

Stephen Maher fired 1-7 as Laois claimed top-spot of the Allianz NHL Division 2A this afternoon, with first wins of the campaign for Wicklow and Westmeath.

A judge has today refused to throw out the case of a Dublin man charged with possession of a stolen monkey.

Jenson Button feels being arguably the fittest driver in Formula One also gives him a mental edge and keeps his nerves in check as he targets a second world title.

A MAN who attempted to murder his girlfriend by burying her alive in a cardboard box has been jailed for 20 years in Britain.

More cars have been set on fire in suspected arson attacks in the Los Angeles area and authorities are investigating whether they are connected to nearly two dozen that were deliberately set alight a day earlier, police said.

DEPARTING chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Declan Collier is resigning tomanage an airport where passenger levels were 12% of those at DAA airports last year.

The Chief Executive of the Dublin Airport Authority is to resign at the end of April to take up a new position as head of London City Airport.

AUTHORITIES in Western Australia are set to ignore government policy in order to bring in as many Irish workers as they can to solve the area’s labour shortage.

The Emirates airline is to begin a new daily Dublin-Dubai service from January, it was announced today.

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) subsidiary Aer Rianta International (ARI) has signed a retailing contract with Yunnan Airport Group in China.