Politicians across the political divide have claimed there is “more than meets the eye” to the growing Scouting Ireland scandal after the head of the group refused to answer questions at a public Dáil meeting tomorrow.

A man who killed his partner’s ex-husband, who died from a knife wound to a varicose vein after a row on Christmas Eve, was jailed today.

A 48-year-old father of three bled to death after receiving a knife wound to a varicose in his leg on Christmas Eve, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 48-year-old father of three bled to death after receiving a knife wound to a varicose in his leg on Christmas Eve, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man who admitted killing a 42-year-old man on Christmas Eve two years ago is living with the deceased’s widow and child, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The takeaway food market contributes more than €1bn per annum to the Irish economy; ranking it alongside the likes of the motor sales, road freight and mobile technology services sectors in terms of economic importance, new research shows.

Dublin benefitting from the significant economic upturn despite increasing pressure in the area of housing supply, a new report has found.

It’s a photograph that may have been seen by millions over the last 100 years – but how many people other than Pádraig Pearse did they all recognise?

A Wexford man accused of murdering a 48-year-old father of three outside his home on Christmas Eve has been granted bail by the High Court.

Gardaí are hoping to bring charges in connection with three stabbings since Christmas Eve which left two men dead, one in intensive care, and another seriously injured.

Three years of sustained cuts in government funding have hampered Scouting Ireland’s ability to expand into new communities.

The European Scouts Symposium is being held in Ireland this weekend.

More resources need to be given to state agencies such as Enterprise Ireland to exploit a potential €9bn trade link with the Arab world.

A 51-year-old Kildare man serving life for murdering his ex partner has today been given a three-year jail sentence for stabbing her new boyfriend.

A Kildare man who stabbed his ex-partner six times in the chest in what has been described as a “shocking, sad and outrageous death” by the presiding judge, has been handed a mandatory life sentence after he was found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A 51-year-old Kildare man has been convicted of murdering his ex partner.

A verdict is expected today in the trial of a 51-year-old Kildare man accused of murdering his ex partner.

The trial of a Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest has reached its closing stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times in the chest did not show any symptoms of suffering from Bipolar disorder, a mental illness, a forensic psychiatrist has told a Central Criminal Court jury.

A Kildare man accused of murdering his ex-partner by stabbing her six times phoned the emergency service hours before the stabbing as he had concerns for her welfare.

A jury in a trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-partner has heard evidence of phone records between the victim's mobile phone and the accused's mobile phone.

A jury has heard phone conversations took place between a 50-year-old Kildare man and his ex-partner before he called to her home and stabbed her to death.

TIPPERARY champions Thurles Sarsfields put their poor divisional form behind them as they hammered Knockavilla Kickhams 6-21 to 1-12 in the first round of the county senior hurling championship at The Ragg.

A major symposium on classroom practice is taking place in the capital today.

THE 2010 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award Winners were announced at a reception in Dublin yesterday.

A MAN was remanded in custody last night over the killing of a mother-of-one in Co Kildare.

A man was remanded in custody tonight over the killing of a mother of one.

GOALKEEPER Daniel O Caoimh was Coláiste Eoin’s hero with two spellbinding second-half saves in this Leinster Colleges ‘A’ SFC semi-final in Blessington on Saturday.

SOME 100 jobs will be created between now and March at newly rebranded Synergy Security Solutions, with further jobs and British expansion plans to follow.

CORK senior football captain Graham Canty last night described the squad’s recent boxing training as ‘a great experience’, as around 600 people gathered in the Rochestown Park Hotel to watch 20 members of the Cork panel fight in aid of the Cobh-based suicide awareness charity ‘Breaking The Silence’.

A HIGH-profile sit-in protest by staff at a north Cork 4Home store has been called off after management agreed to meet with worker representatives for showdown talks on Monday.

EILEEN O’KEEFFE made Irish athletics history when finishing sixth in the final of the hammer throw at the World Championships in Osaka two years ago.

CASTLEKNOCK College and St Mary’s College, Carlow, became the first schools to qualify for the last 16 in the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz following last night’s sessions at the Montrose Hotel, Dublin.

ON a recent trip to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War I in Belgium and France, we brought a group who wished to visit relatives’ graves and memorials.

Thurles Sarsfields 0-14 Mullinahone 0-14