The gas heating in an apartment where a couple suffering hypothermia were found dead had been switched off at the occupier’s request, an inquest heard.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan was not the only commisioner to appear before an Oireachtas Committee last Thursday.

John Glennon (Letters, Dec 16) referring to the Official Languages Act claims “Without the active support of top management, the new legislation was doomed from the start.”

The resignation of An Coimisinéir Teanga, Seán Ó Cuirreáin, adds to the growing suspicion that there is now an undeclared policy in operation to do away with what’s left of Irish in the public life of our country.

The cold weather has been blamed for the deaths of two people who were found in an apartment in Dublin’s north inner city centre on Monday.

It has emerged that a man and a woman found dead in a flat on the North Circular Road died from the cold.

The deaths of a man and a woman in a senior citizens' complex in Dublin yesterday has raised concerns about the dangers of carbon monoxide.

EVERY summer, tourists pose for photographs in front of Guirke’s old shop in the picturesque village of Hollywood, Co Wicklow.

The official inquiry into the murder of Loyalist prisoner Billy Wright in Maze Prison found there was no "state collusion'' in his killing, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson has told the UK's House of Commons today.

Jail chiefs braced themselves today for a major report of a £30m (€367m) UK government investigation into the 1997 murder inside the Maze Prison of loyalist Billy Wright, one of the North's most feared assassins.