A Louth man has been acquitted of IRA membership after the Special Criminal Court found it could not rely on the belief evidence of a Garda Assistant Commissioner as being independent from the investigation.

The underlying growth of the economy is 3% to 4% and is not currently showing signs of overheating, economists and statisticians say, although the vulnerability to high debt levels has been exposed by the alternative growth measures.

A portal tomb, excavated only two years ago in Kerry, has revealed evidence of some of the earliest agricultural activity in north-west Europe.

Patrick and John Collison, the billionaire brothers from Limerick behind mobile payments firm Stripe, were still in their teens when they sold their auction website Auctomatic for €4.5m in 2008.

The Special Criminal Court trial of a Louth man accused of IRA membership has heard that two "very well made" and "viable" improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found in a car that gardai had stopped on the N52 in County Meath.

Irish Examiner readers share their memories and photographs of Ford as part of the company's #Ford100 centenary celebrations.

Rare images of Tralee in the 1860s, believed to be the earliest-ever of Kerry’s county town, will form part of a two-day conference to explore the complex and “eventful” 800-year-old history of the Anglo-Norman settlement.

A north Co Galway town is in shock following the tragic death of a mother and her teenage son in a car accident.

Having built his racing career in Northampton and within earshot of Silverstone, Matt Griffin is content with life following his decision to return to his native Leeside from where he continues his globetrotting motorsport career as a professional Ferrari factory-racing driver.

Archeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the remains of the first settlers in the south-west, dating back almost 6,000 years old.

The economy is growing at such a huge rate that the recovery is approaching a virtuous path similar to the early Celtic Tiger years before the emergence of the credit-fuelled crash.

AS a lawyer, Steve has conducted several high profile cases. In 2010, representing a factory worker, he won the largest award for damages in race discrimination in Northern Ireland’s legal history.

“When I heard Meg had been killed in a car crash, my world fell apart. When Meg was taken, I lost my permanent carer, my confidante, my reason for getting up and fighting my illness.”

Veteran Fianna Fáil TD Michael Kitt has said he was “very surprised” that former Labour TD Colm Keaveney was joining his party and admitted that half his local party was in revolt over the decision, which he found out about from local radio.

Well-known solicitor Gerald Kean has appeared before a sitting of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to face six charges of alleged professional misconduct.

A man who was charged yesterday with dangerous driving causing the death of a young woman in a car crash in West Cork last April has been sent forward for trial.

Michael Hurley has been named at in attack in the only change to the Cork side for this evening’s Electric Ireland Munster MFC semi-final with Tipperary in Semple Stadium (7.30).

A Sunday family walk turned to tragedy when two young sisters were knocked down and killed in Co Galway today.

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

Thousands of property owners have been refunded by the agency collecting the household charge after paying twice or having been accidentally overcharged.

The Irish economy has begun to shrink again, new figures from the CSO show.

Another director of NAMA has handed in his resignation to the Minister for Finance Michael Noonan.

THERE is no question that books will eventually be bought almost exclusively online or that we are living through the end of an era for the printed book.

THE economy grew by around 1.6% — in GDP terms — in the second quarter of this year, according to Central Statistics Office (CSO) data published yesterday.

There are tentative signs that the economy is beginning to recover with new data from the CSO showing GDP growth of 1.6% in the second quarter of the year.

The hoopla emerging from Friday’s distressed property auction in the Shelbourne Hotel obscures huge headaches for the new Government.

Two men have been charged after the discovery of €250,000 worth of herbal cannabis in Galway.

DOUBTS have emerged about Galway’s continued participation in the Leinster hurling championship after a motion to include their minor and U-21 sides was met with a lukewarm response.

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Gardaí are today seeking assistance in tracing a man who has been missing from his home in Portarlington since Monday.

TWO research programmes at the University of Limerick (UL) have received substantial funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), it was announced yesterday.

FORMER Revenue chairman Frank Daly and outgoing IMF consultant Stephen Seelig have been appointed to the board of NAMA by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

The Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has announced the make up of the board of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).

PRESSURED by the unrelenting property boom, industrious young workers from Dublin embarked on a modest western migration.

All-Ireland Club hurling champions Ballyhale Shamrocks had to dig deep before registering a five points win over Carlow side Mount Leinster Rangers in their Leinster Championship opener at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow this afternoon.

A 15-YEAR-OLD Kerry boy died after a vascular malformation in his brain ruptured suddenly, according to medical evidence presented at an inquest in Tralee.

Ireland's economy is continuing to perform well, according to figures published by the Central Statistics Office today.

A man who drove a car into a taxi driver who had acted as a "Good Samaritan" by trying to save a colleague from an assault, has received a two year suspended sentence and been given 240 hours community service.

SINCE the end of June, 50,000 customers have left Eircom as a result of competition in the fixed line telephone market.

THE party-hardy Irish, draped in tricolours and wearing giant Guinness hats, arrived in Latvia in full voice yesterday.