Young people are seen as “plentiful and expendable” by gang bosses.

Mangan had another reason to celebrate on Sunday as his wife, Anne, won the over-60 women’s race. And no, she doesn’t run barefoot.

It happened in the Arthurstown area of Ardee on Wednesday morning under section 30 Offences Against the State Act.

St Catherine’s survived a strong finish from Castlemartyr in the third round of the Cork IHC at Lisgoold this evening.

Optimism amongst Irish manufacturers dropped to a near three-year low in June, as manufacturing conditions deteriorated for the first time in six years amid heightening uncertainty over the nature of Britain's exit from the EU later this year.

A sudden thunderstorm on Tuesday evening in Killarney saw tourists run for cover roads flood, and shops close early in a weather event not seen for fifty years according to locals.

Kevin Egan When the qualifier draw is made this morning, it will be Offaly — the only remaining county in today’s draw that will play their league football outside the top two divisions next spring — that will be seen as the plum draw for most of the other seven.

Offaly safely negotiated a potentially tricky first round qualifier tie at Bord na Móna O’Connor Park in Tullamore this afternoon, where they had the brilliance of Bernard Allen to thank for the ten-point winning margin they enjoyed against London.

The comment comes after the Chief Superintendent of the Louth division said the country was "loaded" with the drug.

A Monaghan mechanic has been found guilty of IRA membership by the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

“I am very keen to ensure that every resource is available to An Garda Siochana in order to bring those responsible to justice.”

Garda decisions to cancel leave and ease stringent controls on overtime in Co Louth reflect the “seriousness and urgency” of the situation in Drogheda, senior officers have said.

It isn’t very often that the frenetic chatter of the Irish Examiner’s newsroom dies to a whisper.

Offaly had eight different scorers compared to Meath’s four and that told the tale.

A man with Asperger’s syndrome was remanded in continuing custody yesterday in a case where he was accused of knocking his mother on the floor of a shop and kicking her in the head.

John Divilly on the takeaways from the opening weekend of league action.

Glenstal are into the quarter-finals of the Munster Schools Senior Cup after scraping past Rockwell College at the University of Limerick’s 4G pitch, writes John Keogh

Technical examinations are being conducted on two mobile phones and at an abandoned house in a bid to determine the motivation behind a knife rampage by an Egyptian teenager in Dundalk that left a young Japanese man dead and two Irish men injured.

Detectives say that an examination of phone and online communications of the Egyptian teenager arrested in relation to the stabbing spree in Dundalk, Co Louth, which left one man dead, would be critical in establishing the motive for the attack.

Latest: Detectives investigating the murder of a Japanese man during a series of random attacks in Dundalk, Co Louth have said terrorism is one line of inquiry.

20-year feud between Kerry neighbours ‘spiralling’, says judge Circuit Civil Court, Killarney.

A legal action concerning the proposed sale of a mansion in Co. Kilkenny is not proceeding, the High Court has been told.

The National Women's Council is calling for an independent investigation into the conduct and behaviour of Michael Colgan while CEO of the Gate Theatre.

Father and son, Jimmy and Paddy Mangan, teamed up to take the most-valuable race, the Graun Hill Suite Beginners’ Chase, on yesterday’s national hunt card on a well-attended inaugural student race-day at Tramore.

Cliffs Of Moher and Cracksman star in a final field of 19 runners for Saturday's Investec Derby at Epsom.

DIT 3-15, GMIT 0-11: DIT manager Derek Brennan was delighted that his side gave themselves a fighting chance of making the knockout stages of the Fitzgibbon Cup after they scored an emphatic at Carnmore in Galway.

Mary Immaculate College 2-31 GMIT 0-16: Former Cork underage prospect Jamie Wall was pleased to see his Mary Immaculate College side run out 21-point winners over GMIT in yesterday’s Fitzgibbon Cup clash.

Tralee CBS 2-10 Intermediate School Killorglin 1-10: It took a goal pretty much from nothing to drive them onto victory but Tralee CBS (The Green) were thankful for an improved second-half display in seeing off a spirited IS Killorglin challenge in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney yesterday. 

TRALEE CBS (The Green) qualified for their first Corn Ui Mhuiri Semi-Final in five years with a three-point win over IS Killorglin.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Day parade was colourful in more ways than one, with every race represented as hundreds of non-nationals mingled with locals to join the celebration.

The annual Kildorrery point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the Duhallow Foxhounds, took place at Rockmills Stud yesterday and the Jimmy Mangan-trained Coole Cody vindicated the promise of his excellent fourth-placed debut effort at Dawstown last season by taking the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

A mother of three died just over a week after routine surgery to remove varicose veins from her legs, an inquest has heard.

Austin Stacks 2-10 Laune Rangers 1-6: Austin Stacks retained their place in the Kerry senior football championship for 2016 and consigned Laune Rangers to the intermediate grade for the first time since 1969.