Stephen Corrigan, considered a missing person since 2011, was identified using DNA from his mother who has since passed away.

Clive Staunton's body was found in the Glen Easton estate in the town on November 15 that year.

The President of the Court of Appeal has said that it’s ‘highly desirable’ that an attempted murderer be sentenced before his 18th birthday to avoid unknown implications.

Tributes were paid today to Laois brothers Fergus and Philip Brophy, who drowned in a diving incident at a quarry, in Co Tipperary, Sunday.

Some pubs are allowed to reopen but this is subject to guidelines being observed.

During the course of the search, gardaí seized approximately €23,100 of suspected diamorphine and €20,020 of suspected cocaine.

A post mortem is due to be carried out this morning on the bodies of two brothers who drowned in a quarry in Tipperary.

Two brothers died yesterday in a diving incident in Co Tipperary. The tragedy unfolded at the Portroe Dive Centre at Portroe Quarry, around 1.30pm.

A man is due in court in Cork tomorrow morning charged after shots were fired in Cork.

They suffered what are being described as "non-life threatening" injuries but gardaí have opened a probe into "criminal damage" at the residence in Dundalk.

The incidents, which saw two men suffer injuries, happened in Mullingar.

Shots were fired around 11.45pm in Fermoy in the county and Mayfield in the city, it has emerged.

A man was taken to hospital suffering from lacerations after an attack on a number of people at a soccer pitch in a Cork suburb.

Update July 4: Folashade Mawoyeka has been found safe and well.

A teenager has been arrested after hitting speeds of over 210km/hr while being chased by gardaí for 65km.

Museums and heritage sites, such as the Giant's Causeway, have also been allowed to re-open as part of lockdown measures being eased.

Gardaí have arrested a man after seizing money and suspected drugs in Drogheda.

Gardaí have been praised after they came to the aid of a critically injured man following a stabbing incident in Co Donegal.

The Court of Appeal has found that the sentence of a teenager, who attempted to murder a woman he met on a dating app, was too lenient.

Tomorrow, July 2, is World UFO Day. While most of us will be familiar with the Roswell incident, Shane Cochrane finds out more about flying saucer crashes in Ireland.

Gardaí have taken 60 statements and sought CCTV from 30 different premises in Ennis as part of an investigation into an alleged assault on a three-and-a-half-month-old baby girl.

An IRA man who was secretly recorded assisting in IRA "interrogations” over leaks to gardaí has failed in an attempt to have his conviction overturned on appeal.

A man has been assaulted after being woken up during a burglary in Tipperary.

A burglar interrupted a sentencing hearing and asked to be allowed to remain in prison upon hearing that the judge planned to release him on bail, a court has heard.

Aaron Brady denied to gardaí that he confessed to the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in front of his friend's partner in a New York apartment, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 41-year-old man swallowed 10 to 12 deals of heroin before knocking a garda to the ground and running from the scene in Cork city, it was alleged today.

A 25-year-old man caught with a loaded handgun was a trusted member of an organised crime gang who were planning an imminent attack on a rival north Dublin faction, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The man, 38, is currently being detained at Navan Garda Station.

Gardaí in Co Louth have seized almost €50,000 worth of counterfeit clothes and drugs in two searches in Dundalk.

Gardaí are questioning a man in his 20s in connection with a shooting in north Dublin.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of Aoife (also known as Eva) Kidman who went missing from her home in Newport, Co. Tipperary in the early hours of this morning.

Update 8pm: A man in his 20s has been arrested after a woman was shot in Ballymun in Dublin.

Davy Fitzgerald has labelled posters on a Clare GAA fans web page as “cowards” for calling him a traitor in recent days.

An 11-year-old boy is in a critical condition after a crash in Co. Cork.

Forensic Gardai at the scene of a fatal crash on the Hyde road in Limerick where a cyclist and a motorist died in the early hours of Friday morning. Photograph Press 22 A boy involved in a collision with a jeep in Co Carlow on Thursday has died.

A stash of cocaine with a street value of €8,700 was thrown out the window of a car as gardaí approached on a rural road in the Mitchelstown area.

An independent review into the operations of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has been handed over to An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

Ireland’s efforts to eliminate human trafficking have been downgraded this year, according to a new report by the US Department of State.

Thomas O’Sullivan has pleaded guilty to driving dangerously causing serious bodily harm to a man, three women and a boy last year.

An investigation has been launched after a fountain dedicated to Queen Victoria was vandalised in Dublin.

A man has died following a collision between a car and a lorry in Kildare.

A Scottish man whose “cack-handed” attempt to lodge a counterfeit €580,000 bank draft was spotted by an eagle-eyed bank teller has been jailed for two years.

A man has been arrested after a supermarket security guard was stabbed in Co Kildare and a Garda injured in a subsequent assault.

A Cork teenager who said he had Coronavirus as he spat at the face of a member of An Garda Síochána - after drinking up to 20 bottles of Budweiser - was ordered to do 240 hours of community service to avoid jail.