The outgoing director general of the HSE was warned more than a decade ago that outsourcing the analysis of cervical cancer screening results could lead to the type of crisis which has now engulfed the system.

Irish innovators are set to boldly go where few have gone before as growing numbers get a chance to develop technologies bound for space.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with a blaze which went out of control and gutted six terraced houses in Kildare.

A DUBLIN-based firm is to develop the next generation of rocket engine technologies to be used for future space exploration missions by the European Space Agency (ESA).

A chronic drug addict has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being caught robbing the same Dublin pub with a sawn-off shotgun for the second time in six years.