Brian O'Driscoll believes Ireland can back up their World No.1 ranking by winning the Rugby World Cup in Japan.

In another stellar year for Ireland’s most capped rugby player, O’Driscoll’s ODM & Promotions Ltd enjoyed profits of €596,006 in the 12 months to the end of August last.

A woman and her son from Cape Clear island have both received six month suspended jail sentences for the harassment of a fellow islander after revelations of a child born out of an affair.

A Cork teenager who raped a sleeping woman while her boyfriend was in the same bed has been jailed for seven years.

A question on the Northern Ireland Executive may have surprised students sitting the ordinary level politics and society paper as the 2019 Leaving Cert exams officially drew to a close.

A mother has been jailed for 28 days after a court heard her daughter had missed 125 days of school out of the last 156 days she could have attended.

The father of a man who is presumed to have been murdered in Cork’s 'House of Horrors' in 1994 has issued an appeal for information that will lead to the recovery of his son's remains.

Almost 150 asylum seekers have been living in direct provision centres for seven years or more.

Two men have been jailed in connection with the "execution" of Aidan "The Beast" O'Driscoll, who was killed on a busy Cork street in a "well-planned" hit as part of an internal dispute between the Real IRA and the New IRA.

The uncertainty surrounding Brexit is probably behind "unusual" delay by the UK authorities in clearing the way for the transfer of a vulnerable high-risk teenager in care here to a specialised unit in the UK, the president of the High Court has said.

The public spending €68,000 a year to keep a prisoner in jail due to shelter, heating, food and recreational costs, a senior Government official has confirmed.

More than 600 children under the age of four are living in Ireland's asylum seeker system.

More than 600 children under the age of four are living in the country's asylum seeker system amid ongoing fears over the treatment of people in such centres.

Sentencing someone to a year in jail costs the public at least €68,000 a year, a senior Government official has confirmed.

Brian O'Driscoll has said the manner in which Tadhg Beirne won a penalty for Munster in the Champions Cup quarter-final is "not a good look" for rugby.

Jacob Stockdale has apologised to Ulster fans after he made what Brian O'Driscoll called an 'unforgivable' error.

The State has paid out almost €9m in compensation and legal fees to staff and prisoners due to assaults and "slopping out" practices - including €100,000 to two families whose relatives died from "self-inflicted" wounds.

A 30-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with a serious assault which has left a 73-year-old man in a critical condition in a Cork hospital.

Ireland kick off their Six Nations campaign against England in Dublin on February 2.

Brian O'Driscoll has appealed to World Rugby to address the "blight on the game" of slide tackles.

A 35-year-old Dubliner shouted "guilty of f*cking what" when a jury convicted him of murdering two men who had arranged to sell him a stolen car.

Accumulated profits at the main firm owned by rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last year almost topped the €6m mark.

"He could probably count on his hands how many times he has been up at Ulster Rugby in the last five years."

Update 9pm: Gardai have warned people not to engage in so called vigilantism.

A brother of bankrupt developer Sean Dunne has been awarded €10,000 by the High Court over intimidation of him and his family by the "debt collection agency" run by the criminal Martin "the Viper" Foley.

The British and Irish Lions face a series decider for the seventh time in their history when they face New Zealand in Auckland on Saturday.

Brian O'Driscoll has backed Wales international Sam Warburton to captain the British and Irish Lions on this summer's tour of New Zealand.

Latest: Human trafficking has a big impact on Ireland and other EU countries, according to the Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald.

The seizure of a €37.5m cannabis haul at Dublin Port is a great result, Gardaí say.

A young woman whose father raped her repeatedly as a teenager says her family has been torn apart in the wake of the abuse and she will never forgive her mother for taking his side.

Murder squad detectives are trying to find dash cam footage of the scene where a former Real IRA boss was shot dead last week.

Dylan Hartley's suitability to lead the British and Irish Lions has been questioned by Brian O'Driscoll as the England captain waits to discover the damage caused to his career by yet another major disciplinary lapse.

The mother of a young man who stabbed his twin brothers more than 40 times before taking his own life has made an emotional plea to people experiencing mental health difficulties to seek help.

Colm O'Driscoll has hit out at Brian Cuthbert's detractors and praised him following confirmation of his departure as Cork senior football manager this morning.

The gulf in class between the top flight and the rest of the divisions has perhaps never been as wide as this year. So who exactly have been a class apart in the league of its own?

Apparently, our Brian likes a bit of music.

Cork hammered their old rivals 3-17 to 2-9 at Páirc Ui Rinn. Tony Leen was there.

The potent attacking arsenal available to UCC was rolled out for all to see as they overcame the shock of an early Cork IT goal to rout their Cork rivals in the Sigerson Cup at the Mardyke today.

Brian O'Driscoll and Amy Huberman have welcomed their second child, Billy O'Driscoll, this afternoon.

Rugby legend Brian O'Driscoll has spoken about how he knew he wanted to marry Amy Huberman after just eight weeks together.

Brian O’Driscoll has recalled being wrongfully arrested for assault and how the shock of a friend’s death left him a sobbing wreck.

Gordon D'Arcy could prove Ireland boss Joe Schmidt's surprise choice to succeed Brian O'Driscoll at outside centre.

Funeral details have been released for three brothers found dead in Co Cork.

Post mortem examinations are taking place on the bodies of the three O'Driscoll brothers who died in Co Cork yesterday.