Fianna Fáil’s Declan Breathnach claimed that differentials in VAT and taxes on commodities will drive people to buy cheaper alcohol across the border.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a man was murdered in Co Louth yesterday.

The case has been adjourned pending a bail hearing later this afternoon.

A campaign is gathering momentum across Louth over the closure of a respite centre that has been operating in Dundalk for 23 years.

It has emerged that Gardaí prevented an ATM digger theft in Carlingford, County Louth over St Patrick’s weekend.

A County Louth Deputy is warning that criminal gangs are turning the North East into the Wild West.

The overnight incident was described as "intimidation" by Louth TD Declan Breathnach.

“It is a sad day for rural Ireland,” boomed a defiant Danny Healy Rae.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is to have individual meetings with TDs and senators who campaigned against repealing the Eighth Amendment in a bid to gain their support to legislate for abortion.

Ireland will remain “frozen in time” if people do not vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said.

Pro-life Fianna Fáil TDs say they will back any legislation allowing abortion for rape, incest and fatal abnormalities if the referendum is passed in a major concession on the deeply divisive potential post-referendum laws.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. All 32 of you.

A small number of Fianna Fáil TDs influenced many others in voting against a bill to allow a referendum on the Eighth Amendment, say party members.

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has suggested the Eighth Amendment be repealed and replaced in the Constitution with a clause allowing the Oireachtas to regulate abortion.

Politicians accused of caring more about their Christmas break.

Latest: Remains found at a house in Co Louth are not those of missing teenager Ciara Breen.

An organisation which represents more than 3,000 retailers is demanding that the Government provides increased resources to Customs units to crack down on cigarette smuggling, and also support a bill which provides on-the-spot fines for those who purchase illicit tobacco, alcohol, and solid fuel.

Teachers have described as “a well-kept secret” a scheme that allows schools to obtain asthma inhalers for emergencies.

Around 100 people have protested outside Government Buildings against Brexit.

Internet auction site eBay has blamed its former sister company, PayPal, for forcing it to shut down its European headquarters in Ireland.

eBay has blamed its former sister company PayPal for forcing it to shut down its European headquarters in Ireland.

eBay is to close its operations in Dundalk in the second quarter of next year.

New junior minister Sean Canney is among a dozen former county and city councillors who will receive golden handshake payments from the local authorities after securing Dáil seats in February.

Ten Fianna Fáil TDs have broken ranks to declare a grand coalition with Fine Gael or the backing of a Fine Gael-led minority government cannot be ruled out.

Number of seats: Five. Electorate: 99,530 as of last election

Former education minister Mary Hanafin’s bid for a Dáil return suffered a setback as Fianna Fáil members in Dún Laoghaire narrowly rejected her as an election candidate.

A rural community was in shock last night after the death of a well-known couple in violent circumstances, who are survived by their four children.

The European Operations Centre of PayPal is a 10-minute walk from Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) where many of the international students were interested to hear that the company is to recruit another 400 staff.

Plans for a cross-border bridge at the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles have been dealt another blow after funding from Europe was pulled.

In Dundalk Garda Station, the one and only station he served in, his colleagues and friends, many of whom worked during the worst of the Troubles, are still coming to terms with the death of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

Tributes have poured in for a Garda detective who was shot dead in Co Louth last night in a botched hold-up.

A manhunt was underway tonight after a Garda detective was shot dead in in a botched hold-up.

TWO members of the Health Service Executive (HSE) forum in the north-east resigned yesterday in protest at what they say is the lack of “accountability” and “responsibility” by the HSE to the members of the forum.

COUNCILLORS in Louth have called for the abolition of the HSE and its executive over the forthcoming transfer of cancer services from Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda to Dublin’s Beaumont hospital.

SCHOOLS and parents are being forced to raise millions of euro to meet Government shortfalls for building projects, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has claimed.

THE North Eastern Health Board wants Minister Micheál Martin to provide funding for a midwifery-led unit at Monaghan General Hospital.

Health Minister Michael Martin will hold talks tomorrow with the family of the Monaghan baby who died after her mother gave birth while en route to Cavan General Hospital.

Bankruptcy loomed for tourism interests close to the Irish border today as the slaughter of farm animals was intensified following confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease in Co Louth.