A 14-year-old schoolboy, who lacerated his leg on a broken bottle while playing football in “knee-high” grass on a common area near his home, has lost a €38,000 personal injury claim against a housing association.

Guardian journalist Owen Jones called the shooting "a deliberate attack on LGBT people.”

A guest on Sky News last night stormed off after a heated debate over the motives of the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen who shot and killed 50 people and injured 53 in the LGBT nightclub attack in the early hours of Sunday morning.

I realise that my writing on the Irish political system to date has been pretty damning.

Cork East TD Sandra McLellan has broken her silence about an internal Sinn Féin row amid speculation that she threatened to leave the party if it did not take her side in the dispute.

Six suspects are in custody tonight being questioned by detectives hunting the killer of Rhys Jones.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling revealed today that she is dreading having to close the final chapter of her seven-part saga about the boy wizard, but the multi-millionairess said she was excited about possibly taking on an assumed name and penning new works as an anonymous writer.

Four young Harry Potter fans have reached the finals of a competition to carry out the UK’s only TV interview with JK Rowling.