A former MEP, failed Dáil candidates and party councillors are in the running to be added to a list of nominees for the upcoming Seanad elections.

Daniel McConnell rules the roost over five post-election scenarios

A chemistry teacher in the UK who sent a schoolgirl indecent photographs of himself with his private parts covered by emojis has been jailed for 15 months.

Latest: A firefighter has been injured escaping from a blaze through a first floor window of a house.

Labour’s Seanad nominees will be announced today as the party’s votes are counted.

Theatre Queen is set to turn out quickly for next week’s National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival following her remarkable effort in defeat at Doncaster on Saturday.

GINA Kerry rates the phone calls from strangers in Ghana purporting to have seen her missing aunt and asking for money to be wired through Western Union among the crueller hoaxes she’s endured in the 20-year search for her loved one.

SLOWLY but surely, the EU is shifting its message on promoting economic growth and is coming to the realisation that it may have been looking for it in the wrong place.

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

A murder investigation was under way tonight after a mother-of-one was stabbed to death.

Labour and some independents have started to claim some of the seats in the local elections in Waterford, Dublin, Kildare and Galway.

A Kilkenny man accused of attempting to murder a friend he thought had HIV, told his cousin he “had seriously assaulted somebody” on the morning of the alleged incident, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Kilkenny teenager accused of the murder of a mother-of-two has heard the 18-year-old's DNA was found on a Sony Playstation allegedly belonging to the deceased’s eldest son.