League of Ireland clubs could be facing a hefty additional cost if the bid by the Players Football Association of Ireland (PFAI) to pursue holiday pay entitlements for their members comes to fruition.

The League of Ireland is heading for a three-tier split format from 2021 if, as expected, clubs rubber-stamp proposals next month.

EPA scientist Noel Byrne has called on septic tank owners to check their tanks to ensure they are operating properly and not posing a risk.

Four years of a Johne’s disease control programme on a Teagasc dairy research farm have highlighted the long-term nature of control programmes for the disease.

With an almost 60% increase in knife murders to 19 fatalities in 2014, a bereaved family member tells Cormac O’Keeffe of his continuing pain and grief

A weather warning remains in place across the country this morning.

Train services in Dublin are cancelled today and tomorrow between Pearse Street and Dun Laoghaire stations.

Keeping things in perspective is what Fran Gavin does. Charged with running the SSE Airtricity League, he has mastered the art of standing back and looking at the big picture.

A woman has been given a life sentence after being convicted of murdering her husband by stabbing him 61 times.

A 40 year old Dublin woman who stabbed her husband over 60 times has been convicted of his murder and jailed for life.

A woman accused of murdering her husband by stabbing him to death had a background of schizoaffective disorder, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The father of a 27-year-old accused of murdering a man in Co Wicklow three years ago has said his son told him “he was going to be framed for something he hadn’t done”.

SHAMROCK ROVERS expect to find out early next week if they will be able to play their Europa League group games in Tallaght.

A Dublin man who was involved in the theft of more than €9,000 worth of Cadbury's Easter eggs for the Provisional IRA more than eight years ago was given a four-year suspended prison sentence by the Special Criminal Court today.

OFFICIALS in South Tipperary have launched an investigation after a match was abandoned in the division for the fourth time this year.

AN outbreak of bovine viral diarrhoea cost a Teagasc research farm €15,444 in 2008.

An alcoholic woman described as "a menace on the road" by Judge Tony Hunt has been jailed for six years for dangerous driving which resulted in severe leg injuries to a Swedish tourist.

Former Nottingham Forest favourite Tommy Gaynor is the new manager of Kilkenny City FC.

PEOPLE buying box sets of The Sopranos and other hit TV series for a knockdown price at street markets and car boot sales are likely to be contributing to organised crime, according to customs investigators.

PLANS to convert a hotel, which has been lying idle for over four years at a cost to the taxpayer of over €4 million, into a care centre took a major step forward yesterday.

The two men who died in a drowning accident on the River Barrow in south Co Carlow yesterday evening have been named.