A revolutionary €35m floating data centre is set to be moored on the banks of the River Shannon, in a move which could create 124 jobs.

Organisers of an annual charity rugby match held each year in memory of “fallen” rugby stars, are to dedicate this year’s event to two young rugby players who lost their lives in a double drowning tragedy.

A ‘mega rare’ sighting of a seal usually found on Arctic sea ice has stunned wildlife observers after being spotted in Ireland for only the second time on record, writes Linda McGrory.

A ‘mega rare’ sighting of a seal usually found on Arctic sea ice has stunned wildlife observers after being spotted in Ireland for only the second time on record.

Dads of newborn babies can now claim two week’s paternity leave. On Father’s Day, Helen O’Callaghan looks at the many benefits of the new scheme.

The challenge for people in human resource management is to spark changes in organisations which may have become altogether set in their ways, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

And there you were, thinking you’d never see him or Westmeath again, when who springs up in Croke Park and on your screen but himself. 

Olympic silver medalist John Joe Nevin faces a trial by judge and jury after he was charged yesterday with the offence of violent disorder.

A chief executive received more than £1m in unauthorised salary bonuses and pension payments, it has been claimed in the High Court.

Meath 4-10, Westmeath 0-11: Meath started a busy month of football with a goal rush that pleased manager Mick O’Dowd at Páirc Tailteann on Saturday night.

There have been greater glory days for Westmeath GAA, that’s for sure. The Leinster SFC title on July 24, 2004, for one, would be hard beaten but last Sunday has secured itself a place in the annals.

Westmeath 0-15 Kildare 0-12

A pig farmer, who built a “monster” piggery without planning permission, has been given three months to work out a plan to prevent the development from becoming an environmental disaster.

The Irish Medical Organisation’s long-standing director of communications Maria Murphy has launched High Court proceedings aimed at preventing her purported dismissal from her post.

A farmer was jailed yesterday after a judge labelled him “an absolute disgrace” for failing to prevent an environmental timebomb from threatening lakes in the Midlands.

EVEN in this, The Land Of No Consequences, yesterday’s sentencing of pig farmer Donal Connaughton in Longford District Court stands out as a spectacular affront.

Next week in New York the county board’s centenary celebrations will end on a high note with the launch of the extensively researched Fergus Hanna 100-year history of the GAA in New York, writes John Riordan.

A taskforce of government departments, farmers, and other agencies has been set up to avert an environmental pig slurry disaster in the Midlands.

A judge has called for a taskforce to be set up to prevent an impending environmental disaster in the Midlands.

Turf cutters’ champion Michael Fitzmaurice swept to victory in Roscommon-South Leitrim, dealing a body blow to Fianna Fáil.

Fianna Fáil candidate Ivan Connaughton has conceded defeat in the Roscommon South Leitrim by-election this evening.

Despite trailing Fianna Fáil candidate Ivan Connaughton by 1,114 votes after the first count, Michael Fitzmaurice (Independent) leads the Roscommon South Leitrim by-election after the fifth count.

FF’s Ivan Connaughton has all but admitted defeat in the Roscommon South Leitrim by-election.

Fianna Fáil's Ivan Connaughton has topped the poll after the first count of the Roscommon South Leitrim by-election concluded today.

A failure to win a seat in today’s Dáil by-elections will not be linked to questions around Micheál Martin’s leadership of Fianna Fáil, according to the party’s finance spokesperson, Michael McGrath. 

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has yielded to pressure and released an edited summary of its "fact-finding investigation" into how details of a suspected bugging of GSOC were leaked to The Sunday Times.

The Fianna Fáil wipeout in the 2011 general election has given new female candidates the chance to fill the otherwise empty electoral landscape.

The Garda Ombudsman yesterday said it would have referred the report of its leak inquiry to the "appropriate agency" if it had found any "definitive evidence" indicating a criminal offence.

Two investigations into the GSOC bugging affair have left many questions unanswered, including who leaked the report, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A report commissioned by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) into the recent leak of confidential information has failed to establish any individual responsibility "either on the part of an employee of GSOC or any other party".

Mayo 2-16 Roscommon 0-14

Former All Star goalkeeper Gary Connaughton has returned to the Westmeath panel for the remainder of the league and could be involved in the Championship.

A GAA coach who sexually abused a star juvenile player was jailed for three years yesterday.

A pig farmer who ordered two repossession men to strip naked and get into a pen with an “agitated” boar has been jailed.

A Longford pig farmer who assaulted two men from a repossession company and threatened that they would be raped by an agitated boar was under serious financial pressure at the time, a court has been told.

Ordnance Survey Ireland has been strongly condemned over its decision to award bonuses worth €30,000 to four individuals in 2011, despite a Government ban on such payments.

People with cancer, disabilities, or serious illnesses who have had their medical cards removed in “one foul swoop” deserve an explanation for the reasons why, according to Fine Gael TD, Paul Connaughton.

Westmeath goalkeeper Gary Connaughton has retired from inter-county football in the wake of the county’s 3-10 to 1-15 qualifier defeat by Fermanagh.

Long-serving goalkeeper Gary Connaughton, who won an historic first Leinster SFC title with Westmeath in 2004, has announced his retirement from inter-county football.

An independent investigation is to be carried out into allegations of serious misconduct against a suspended school principal who is seeking a court order reinstating him.