Some 600,000 pairs of gloves are being distributed to gardaí and a further 400,000 are to follow as part of the State’s response to Covid-19.

A travel insurance provider is reporting a massive spike in travel and wedding insurance sales because of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe.

Offaly set up an O’Byrne Cup final clash with Longford next weekend, their victory sealed by two late points from substitute Cian Farrell.

According to Freedom of Information figures, a total of 162 officers missed at least a day because of an attack.

Owen Mulligan says Cathal McShane is entitled to pursue an Aussie Rules career, amid calls for the GAA to cut ties with the AFL since reports emerged of the All-Star full-forward's potential move.

Emlyn Mulligan has been left out of Terry Hyland’s Leitrim squad for the 2020 season, but he says he will never retire from inter-county football.

Antoinette Corbally, 48, and Clinton Shannon, 30, were shot outside a house in Ballymun on August 16 2017.

The race to fill the seat vacated by Independents4Change TD Clare Daly in Dublin-Fingal on Friday, November 29 is shaping up to be a two-horse race.

Mr D'Arcy has ignored calls to apologise to gardaí for the controversial comments.

219 days before it begins, the 2020 Munster senior football championship draw, along with Connacht’s, was to take place on RTÉ Radio this morning.

Frontline gardaí and supervisors have expressed fears that the new restructuring of the organisation will result in less, not more, policing in rural areas.

A judge has praised a young Cavan woman who came to the aid of a dying man on the street as she left work on New Year’s Eve.

Former Tyrone star Owen Mulligan believes the ‘knives will be out’ for long-serving manager Mickey Harte if the Red Hand fail to come through tomorrow’s tricky All-Ireland qualifier trip to Newbridge.

A Dublin man died from a gunshot wound that went through his head, a pathologist has told the trial of two men accused of his murder.

The Government has backed plans to provide gardaí with body cams.

Garda commissioner Drew Harris has asked to meet Majella Moynihan this week to make a personal apology.

There’s a strange feeling that comes over you when you stand on the first tee of a golf course, especially when you’re only a beginner in the game and playing with people you don’t really know.

The Garda Representative Association (GRA) president Jim Mulligan has defended the force’s ‘parading allowance’ saying it improves supervision, brings cohesiveness and greater efficiencies.

“Gardaí are weary of hearing about grand ideas that don’t have the money to make them a reality,” GRA president Jim Mulligan has told Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan.

The armed support unit in Co Louth is “stretched to the limit” as it battles to cover the escalating gang feud in Drogheda, rampaging ATM gangs and patrolling the border as far as Co Cavan.

The issue of violent crime will dominate the annual conference of the Garda Representative Association, which begins in Co Kerry this evening.

In-form Westmeath claimed their second piece of silverware of the season as they finished strong to secure the Allianz NFL Division 3 title.

Shane McGuigan helped fire Derry to their first Allianz Football League Division 4 title, at Croke Park this afternoon.

It was third time lucky for Mercy Ballymahon as Clodagh Lohan’s hat-trick helped them claim the Lidl All-Ireland PPS Senior C title with an emphatic win over St Mary’s, Midleton in Bannagher.

Derry and Leitrim ended the group stages on a winning note, ahead of their Allianz Football League Division 4 Final next weekend.

Leitrim veteran Paddy Maguire feared that he would never play in Croke Park or be on a county team that gained promotion from Division 4.

Ryan McHugh has put his injuries behind him and is now concentrating his efforts on getting Donegal back to Division 1 and preparing for the defence of the Ulster SFC come summer.

Former Tyrone attacker Owen Mulligan has criticised the GAA's proposed one-game suspension of Donie Smith for an apparent eye-gouge as a "cop out".

A major search took place in Co Clare today for a woman not seen since Saturday night.

Experienced Dublin defender Jonny Cooper has rejected claims that he’s a deliberately cynical and ‘nasty’ player who trades in ‘cute whorism’.

Former Tyrone star Owen Mulligan has suggested the county narrowed their Omagh pitch for the Super 8 clash with Dublin in preparation for this weekend’s showdown with Donegal.

The case of a man found guilty of causing serious harm to two former partners by infecting them with HIV was an “isolated incident”, says HIV Ireland.

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Laois are on the lookout for a new manager after Eamonn Kelly stepped down after two years in charge.

Experienced Leitrim attacker Emlyn Mulligan insists it was more important for them than New York to win Sunday’s gripping Connacht SFC tie.

A 20-year-old man injured on Halloween night last died as a result of a traumatic brain injury, an inquest heard.

An appeal to find the family of an Irish man living in the UK has resulted in some success after social media claims he was  "dying in hospital virtually alone".

A 79-year-old woman who loved gardening died after a fall onto garden shears, an inquest heard.

Kilkenny’s Enda O’Brien (Escort) withstood a late challenge from Cashel’s Paul O’Connell (Mitsubishi EvoIX) to win the Carlow Car Club Rallysprint at Mondello Park yesterday. 

HIV Ireland is calling for extra funding to increase awareness.

A judge who heard days of evidence about bad blood between neighbours over a house extension said the two parties were very foolish but only one was before the court.

An architect denied harassing neighbours when they built an extension to their home by playing music so loud it was like an earthquake, staring at them, or kicking a football repeatedly against a wall.