The Oireachtas Justice Committee will tomorrow be asked to consider establishing a specialist division of courts as part of family law reform.

All parties involved with the 2FM Xmas Ball are providing their services free of charge on the night including artists, organisers and 3Arena.

The Government’s “failure” to provide sufficient funding to abolish civil legal aid fees for victims of domestic violence, has been criticised.

Figures from the Circuit Court show that over 4,000 cases were initiated last year, compared to just over 3,000 in 2011.

A 79-year-old man from Galway will have a night to remember in November when he rocks up to Kasabian’s concert in the Three Arena with Jennifer Zamparelli and the RTÉ 2fm Breakfast Republic team.

Tough times lie ahead for Ireland with Brexit looming, but there is plenty to play for, writes Kyran Fitzgerald, and our government will have to play a vital role in the negotiations

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PUBLIC discussions about rural issues in Ireland often take a stereotypical view, taking extremes, either as a rural idyll or as a problem, writes Prof Cathal O’Donoghue

MUSIC NEWS: Hozier’s latest video, for ‘Someone New’ off his debut album, features Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer. 

Gardaí searching a house for drugs found a man on a phone flushing heroin down the toilet.

There was no sign of any old copies of The Beano or Dandy lying around when a judge inspected a speed camera van yesterday.

RTÉ star Ryan Tubridy urged 2FM listeners to stay faithful to the station during its shake-up of the daytime schedule as Nicky Byrne adds star power to its line-up.

The battle of the airwaves between Pat Kenny and Seán O’Rourke produced no real winners or losers in the red-hot competition for mid-morning radio audiences, according to the latest JNLR figures.

The Revenue Commissioners have defended their method of calculating house prices in advance of this summer’s property tax amid criticism that their valuation guidelines do not reflect market reality.

A man driving a 4x4 pulling a trailer with three horses got aggressive with gardaí resulting in him being pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton, but yesterday he claimed he was just anxious about the animals.

BACK in the mid-1950s the then government, not Fianna Fáil, targeted foreign direct investment (FDI) as a core part of our future economic strategy to help move us away from our very heavy dependence on agriculture.

NEW data has highlighted the massive role US multinational subsidiaries are playing in helping the economy get through the current crisis.

A Cork man who raped a teenage girl after he and his brother spent €300 on cocaine and alcohol has been jailed for four years by Ms Justice Maureen Clark at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man has been convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of raping a then 16-year-old girl in a countryside area outside the city.