More than 1,100 people have signed a petition opposing plans to erect wind turbines which would be taller than the Dublin Spire.

Fresh charges have been brought against two former Anglo Irish Bank senior executives who are awaiting trial for Revenue offences.

In Tralee, around 25 people objecting to a proposed windfarm in a rural area near Listowel protested outside a Kerry County Council meeting.

A former head of treasury at the former Anglo Irish Bank is to stand trial on revenue offences.

The former head of Anglo Irish Bank’s treasury division is to stand trial on revenue offences.

A man who sexually abused his daughter for a decade from when she was just 3 has been jailed for two years.

Dear Big Phil, I write this letter to you in the faint hope that you would give me a straight answer without any spin or, shall we say, “uisce faoi thalamh”.

A former Irish Olympic swimming coach who jailed for six years for sexually abusing young boys has had his conviction quashed.

COMMENTING on Saddam’s execution, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said: “Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him”.

Thirteen people died in a weekend of tragedy on Ireland’s roads.