Going through the village of Ballineen the other night, I was stopped by the guards.

Five men have been convicted for offences spread over three incidents on one weekend, and all in the context of what a court was told was a “long-standing feud” between two related families.

Members of the Burke family will leave south Galway this weekend and head to two different north Dublin destinations with similar goals and aspirations in mind.

RTÉ’s latest series of Home Rescue sees a Cork mum with eight sons — all with names beginning with the letter K — declutter her home. Ailin Quinlan meets the family.

More than 100 people turned out for the funeral of an RAF veteran in the UK who died with no known family, following a social media appeal.

Bank of Ireland says a couple transferred ownership of a property in Wicklow Street, Dublin, and their home in Milltown, Dublin, with intent to defraud creditors, including the bank which says it is owed €14.8m.

A garda could give evidence on what the force knows about the Kingsmill shooting via a court in the Republic of Ireland, the foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney said.

IT’S easy to see what Michael Collins was trying to achieve in The Death of all Things Seen.

A mother who was “left with nothing” after losing her son and friend in a house fire earlier this year has moved into a new home.

A man has been arrested by detectives investigating the sectarian murder of ten Protestant workmen in the North 40 years ago.

The head of the Limerick divisional drugs squad said yesterday that the jailing of the Collopy brothers, Kieran and Brian, resulted from a clinically organised strike against the gang’s leadership after a year-long multi-agency Garda operation.

The mother of Kenneth Relihan, who died in a house fire in Macroom last week, has been left with “nothing” following the tragedy, her daughter said yesterday.

One of the more prominent features on the front of Nóirín McAuliffe’s house in Macroom is a satellite dish, prompting thoughts about what she might have been watching on Sunday night.

Changes to what it claims is “an out of date” and “anti-competitive” ferrying system to the Unesco world heritage site of Skellig Michael, off the coast of Kerry, have been announced by the Office of Public Works.

Kenneth O’Brien has been laid to rest after his funeral in Dublin earlier.

A woman has been found guilty of murdering a 63-year-old man who was subjected to a “protracted torturing and killing”.

A 37-year-old woman has been found guilty of murdering a man she said was "like a Dad to her" at a senior citizens’ complex in Dublin on January 6, last year.

As a young garda on his first assignment stationed in Cabinteely in south Dublin, Tony Golden had all the attractions of big city night life and entertainment on his doorstep, but nothing could beat for him the thrill of the hurling pitch in his native Ballina.

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Borrowers who are banking on a judicial Fifth Cavalry riding to the rescue may have to think again, if a recent decision of the new Court of Appeal is anything to go by.

The rejection of a couple’s complaint that a bank breached a loan contract by increasing the variable rate on their mortgages was a correct decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

An ongoing failure by the gardaí to disclose its files on the massacre of 10 workmen in Armagh, despite a pledge by the Taoiseach, borderson disgraceful, Belfast Coroner’s Court has heard.

Three members of a well- known Cork political family — one of whom is currently serving a jail sentence — were among 126 mortgage holders against whom lenders sought repossession orders at a sometimes noisy Limerick County Registrar’s court yesterday.

Ellie O’Byrne spends a day on the river with the volunteers of Cork Missing Persons Search and Recovery Unit and hears about the essential and good work they do — for free.

Mother-of-four Rachel Drumm and her estranged husband Kenneth, brother of former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm, yesterday lost the €1m home they owned together in Skerries, Co Dublin.

The Financial Services Ombudsman must reconsider a couple’s complaint that Danske Bank was not entitled to increase to 4% the variable interest rate on their mortgages at the same time the ECB interest rate was falling to almost zero, following a High Court ruling.

The Financial Services Ombudsman has been told by the High Court to look again at Danske Bank’s decision to hike its variable interest mortgage rates to more than 4% when ECB rates had plunged to almost zero.

The High Court has asked the Financial Services Ombudsman if a bank is allowed to increase mortgage interest rates at times when the rates set by the European Central Bank are historically low.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for help in finding a missing man by issuing a CCTV image of him.

Gardaí in Dundalk are concerned for the welfare of a man who has been missing for three days.

A young man who tragically lost his life in a road accident was attended to by his uncle who works in the emergency services.

Gang boss Wayne Dundon, two of his brothers and fellow murderer Nathan Killeen are all holed up in a special section within the country’s only maximum security jail.

A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.

A US couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.

A brother and sister charged with the murder of 63-year-old Thomas Horan, who was found dead in his sheltered accommodation apartment in Dublin, were further remanded in custody today.

For a reformed party boy, you would have thought boxer Kenny Egan would be more choosy about parties these days.

Keira Knightley has said working with Kenneth Branagh on ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ felt very “schizophrenic” as he flitted between Russian villain and polite British director.

A brother and sister charged with the murder of an elderly man in Dublin's Ringsend have appeared in court for a second time.

A brother and sister made no reply when they were charged with the murder of 63-year-old Thomas Horan, who was found dead in his sheltered accommodation in Dublin on Monday.

It’s only when you trawl through the number of Limerick gangland heavyweights holed up in prisons that the scale of the Garda’s success reveals itself.