Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has won a fight to keep his ministerial post after a power struggle with Independent Alliance colleague Sean Canney over who should be the junior minister.

The body of Willie Lynch has been removed from his house in the village of Pallaskenry, Co Limerick this afternoon.

Securing a significant extension of Cork’s city boundary is now of national importance, a city councillor warned last night as they rejected a land offer from the county.

Update 6.46pm: The family of a young student who was tied up and repeatedly raped throughout the night have arrived in Dublin to care for her, it has been reported.

A two-year-old boy has died after being recovered from a river in Scotland.

A toddler who fell five floors from a hotel roof balcony last weekend, is believed to be showing “positive” signs of recovery.

Parents fighting for a public playground which has been stalled for almost a decade have criticised Cork City Hall for doing a U-turn on their fundraising offer.

The house where paedophile Mark Bridger is believed to have murdered April Jones is being readied for demolition.

People living in a village in East Cork are furious with the lack of information from Irish Water about why they were left without a supply for several days. 

They might have to wait another three weeks to learn their fate on the hurling pitch, but Kilkenny folk are celebrating victory in another field after winning the national Tidy Towns contest.

Two local authority housing projects are to be built in Cork City as part of a €5m investment.

A perfume gang are targeting chemists across the country.

One Direction star Niall Horan looks set to be immortalised with a museum dedicated to solely him in his hometown of Mullingar.

There were many heavy hearts in Seamus Heaney’s spiritual home today but none heavier than Barney Devlin’s.

Two men have been arrested after separate attacks on mosques following the terrorist incident in Woolwich.

Fears were expressed yesterday that the closure of a Garda station in a former Limerick crime blackspot could allow a feuding gang to reassert control.

Local Hero is set for a mid-winter break after rain scuppered his chances in the Elite Hurdle at Wincanton.

A two-year-old girl and her two-month-old baby sister have been killed in a car accident in Co Galway this afternoon.

Funding has been announced by the Government to upgrade one of the country’s oldest urban areas, which can trace its history back to 914AD.

Plans to carry out roadworks in Killarney at the height of the busy tourist season are leading to objections in the Co Kerry town.

A security alert is underway in north Belfast after a suspicious object was found on the Limestone Road.

The HSE was not alerted to a spate of deaths at a private nursing home in Donegal until all six patients had died.

One of the country’s oldest glazing firms which employs 84 people was on the brink of closure last night after a last-minute takeover deal collapsed.

The way has been cleared for the transfer of land on historic Abbey Island, in the Derrynane National Historic Park, to Kerry County Council to allow for the extension of a unique island graveyard.

A HIGH Court order may be required to remove demonstrators who have gathered on land belonging to jailed Co Offaly woman Teresa Treacy.

A protest will take place outside Blanchardstown Hospital in Dublin today over fears that Accident and Emergency services could be downgraded.

Gardaí are treating the deaths of two sisters whose bodies were found on a beach as a tragic accident.

LOCAL politicians and businessmen have expressed their anger at groups spreading false rumours that convicted rapist Larry Murphy is in West Cork.

ALMOST 200 people working in one of Offaly’s biggest employers are to lose their jobs by the end of the year.

CONNEMARA Mining’s latest drill has show that lands near Pallasgreen in Co Limerick contain vast amounts of zinc which could lead to the opening of one of the biggest mines ever in this country.

Detectives were tonight probing the violent death of a man whose bloodied body was discovered in a flat complex.

Everton’s plans for a new stadium at Kirkby have been rejected by Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham.

THE ESB has been urged to improve safety in relation to pylons following the death of a 20-year-old man who was electrocuted after he received a shock from a pylon on the southside of Cork city.

DESPITE fire, smoke and water damage, An Post staff have delivered a fully operation post office.

Stephen Rogers and Juno McEnroe profile Michael Dwyer, the Irishman shot dead by security forces for his alleged involvement in a plot to kill a president.

FEARS have been voiced that plans for the opening of a new railway station near Blackpool in Cork city may be shelved indefinitely due to Government cutbacks announced in the budget.

A SKYDIVER who survived a 100ft plunge when his chute malfunctioned has been found dead.

A BLIND musician plans to bring the music of hope to one of Limerick’s most notorious crime blackspots.

FORMER health minister Micheál Martin was challenged last night to find an alternative site for one of the state’s first co-located hospitals.

BORD GÁIS is to build a multi-million euro pipeline from south Tipperary to east Cork to increase supply in the region.

A number of areas around Galway city and county are still without water supplies following an electrical fault at a treatment plant last week.

EMERGENCY measures to bring affordable water to the people of Galway are expected to be voted through the city council tonight.

A MAJOR drug dealer who is thought to be a main suspect for the latest gangland murder is out on bail for a serious drugs offence, sources said yesterday.