An 18-year-old Dublin youth charged with firearms offences following a shooting incident in which a garda was injured has been refused bail..

An Post has told an Oireachtas committee that Eircode usage remains “very low”, with less than 5% of all mail it handles using the €38m postcode — more than two years after it launched.

The price-tag for actor and comedian Pat Shortt’s home has been further reduced to €1.2m — less than half its purchase price of €2.7m during the boom.

A man who consumed alcohol against medical advice told gardaí arresting him for possession of a knife that he was Garth Brooks and was “into line dancing,” a court has heard.

Kelly Mallon’s win over Silke Tulk in the final of the Global Catering Queen of the Roads was the standout contest of the 32nd King and Queen of the Roads at Ballincurrig.

EVERYTHING is very plain and modern now,” a dying man tells the author Jack London roughly halfway through Minds of Winter, warning the writer against the gothic, supernatural excesses of the yarn he is spinning in a hospital ward.

All-Ireland champion Thomas Mackle bowled well to beat Aidan Murphy by almost a bowl in the Willie Whelton Cup at Grange.

The world’s largest oil traders are scraping the bottom of the barrel in search of their next big opportunity.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his ministers have heard calls for urgent action in Dublin’s inner city amid claims the area has been left to become a “social apartheid” after decades of neglect.

Dyspraxia may be relatively unknown but it is a common, if undetected, condition, as Jessica Casey finds out

It’s become a feature of both Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s and Jim Gavin’s reigns that they tend not to select Under 21 players for big matches. It begs the question, why not?

Relatives and friends of Aisling Brady McCarthy have vowed to help her rebuild her life as they prepare to welcome her back to Co Cavan after her ordeal.

The tugboat Gerry O’Sullivan sprayed arcs of water, other Navy ships sounded their horns in salutem and families cheered and waved flags on the quayside as the LÉ Eithne pulled into base.

Demonstrators involved in the anti-water charge protest during which Tánaiste Joan Burton was trapped in her car have said they are proud of it and would do it again.

Taxi driver Emmet Fay, who had claimed €38,000 damages for injuries he received in a hit-and-run accident almost five years ago, yesterday agreed to a judge throwing out his claim.

The father of a 12-year-old girl who lost her battle with cancer this week has said his daughter died happy after receiving a message from her favourite band.

Garth Brooks’s five-night stand at Croke Park could be brought to a halt by a High Court injunction within the next 48 hours.

Director Jimmy Fay has been a fan of James Joyce since his teens, when he read the partly autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

In honour of the centenary of the 1913 Lockout, the Abbey Theatre is closing out the year with a rare revival of James Plunkett’s play The Risen People.

IS IT a bore for the kids, another layer of labour for frazzled mums — or a crucial route to academic success?

It may seem a long way from West Cork to the giddy heights of corporate HQ in New Jersey, but Fergal O’Dowd doesn’t see it that way.

The next generation of Traveller children could be “condemned” to unemployment and limited opportunities unless the Government rows back on cuts affecting them, according to a report.

EVERYTHING was about to change dramatically for Brendan Fay.

Smaller schools fear for their existence following what a teachers’ leader branded as selective leaking by the education minister, Ruairi Quinn, of a report on their future.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today faces the wrath of teachers over pay cuts in a Croke Park II deal that looks increasingly likely to be rejected by their unions.

Teachers angered over education cuts have accused the Government of breaking election promises.

It could have been “lights out” for a dog that swallowed a foot of Christmas fairy lights if a team of vets had not performed life-saving surgery on him.

Novelist Roddy Doyle has been ordered by a High Court judge to provide a sworn statement that he only has one version of a play he allegedly co-wrote with a man who is suing him and the Abbey Theatre in a row over alleged copyright infringement.

A priest has condemned New York residents who refused to open their doors to a mother of two Irish boys who were swept away by Superstorm Sandy in the US.

Thousands of protesting teachers have warned they will fight further education cuts that target the most vulnerable.

Gardaí moved quickly yesterday to arrest two suspects in connection with the shooting of an innocent schoolboy in south Dublin.

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Putting her trust in a friend paid off for West Cork-based Justine Fay, who bought a horse, unseen, over the phone that last week capped a great year by winning two championship titles at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show.

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A man who took part in prolonged and violent attack on a couple’s home to try to stop their son giving evidence in an upcoming trial has been sentenced to two and half years.

THE David Norris interviews are not the first to have caused a presidential candidate some trouble.

CARLOW IT claimed the IRCU Division 1 title with a very impressive 30-17 win against Athlone IT at the CIT campus, Bishopstown yesterday evening.