Latest: Human torso have been discovered in County Wicklow.

Irish ports will have their busiest ever cruise ship season in 2017 with over 300 vessels scheduled to visit ports and harbours around the country, writes John Daly.

The baby girl found dead at a Wicklow recycling centre last May was born “weeks, if not months” before she was discovered, it has emerged.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for the mother of a new born baby girl found three months ago in a recycling facility in Bray, Co. Wicklow, to contact them.

Clergy and gardaí have renewed appeals to the parents of a baby girl, whose body was found at a recycling plant last week and laid to rest yesterday, to come forward.

Gardai have appealed to the mother of a newborn baby girl whose body was found in a recycling centre to come forward amid concerns for her health.

You don’t spend many hours in front of American TV shows without picking up one or two invaluable life skills; notably the ability to stage, when a suitable crisis point dawns, an intervention.

RESCUERS in nine dramatic, near-death, water accidents were honoured at an awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

Staff at a number of fast food giants are taking to the streets later to highlight their anger at what they regard as the industry's attack on their wages.

Five housekeepers at a well-known Dublin hotel have scored a victory over management after their minimum wage salaries were cut.

A RECEIVER has been appointed to the Lynch Group’s flagship and longest established hotel, the West County Hotel in Ennis.

GARDAÍ suspect a drink-fuelled row over a football match may have led to the violent death of a man in the picturesque Wicklow village of Avoca.

Gardaí have named the man who died following an assault in Avoca, Co Wicklow last night as 48-year-old Brian Doyle.

UP to 600 staff working in Keelings are to be balloted for strike action after their union said at least 130 workers were told they faced redundancy.

A GOVERNMENT intervention of just €4 million would have saved an additional 700 jobs at airline maintenance firm SR Technics, SIPTU has claimed.

An Irish firm has submitted a bid to buy the majority of SR Technics' Dublin Airport operation, it was revealed this afternoon.

DELIVERY company DHL is to make 320 staff redundant at one of its businesses by August, while 55 workers will lose their jobs at Cork city-based Option Wireless.

FRANTIC attempts to save 600 jobs at Dublin-based aviation firm SR Technics failed yesterday after the company’s Swiss owners refused a government request to allow workers to take two-weeks unpaid leave while the IDA evaluates bids for the firm.

Workers at the troubled SR Technics plant are meeting today to hammer out a way forward for the campaign to save their jobs.

TROUBLED airline maintenance firm SR Technics last night rejected a Labour Court recommendation that it increase pension and redundancy contributions by more than €40 million.

Troubled aircraft maintenance firm SR Technics tonight rejected a Labour Court recommendation that it meet the shortfall in its pension fund and effectively double its good-will redundancy payments.

TROUBLED airline maintenance firm SR Technics told the Labour Court yesterday it could not improve the redundancy package on offer to staff amid reports a “serious offer” had been made for the company.

Up to 900 jobs could be saved at aircraft maintenance firm SR Technics after a bid was made to buy-out the troubled company, SIPTU claimed today.

SIPTU is claiming that SR Technics has received a serious bid for the business in the past 24 hours which would save around 900 jobs at the Dublin Airport operation.

SR Technics management and unions are to go before the Labour Relations Commission next week, as efforts to save the aircraft maintenance firm intensify.

THE Government is forwarding any expressions of interest in taking over SR Technics’ Dublin operation directly to the aircraft maintenance firm — despite any successful bidder being a likely competitor to the Swiss company.

THE 1,135 workers employees at aircraft maintenance firm SR Technics should find out in the next three days the extent of any shortfall in the company pension scheme.

Workers at SR Technics will today meet Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan regarding the closure of the troubled aircraft maintenance firm and the loss of more than 1,100 jobs.

A HUGE crowd of 70,000 spectators turned out for the first day of the championships, leading to 16km tailbacks and serious gridlock.

A HUGE crowd of 70,000 spectators turned out for the first day of the championships, leading to 16km tailbacks and serious gridlock.

THIS Christmas 55 people will lose their jobs when Smurfit Kappa closes its Killeen Corrugated Products plant in Ballyfermot, West Dublin, trade union SIPTU said yesterday.

KILKENNY hurling was in mourning yesterday with the news that one of two women killed in a crash outside Thomastown was the wife of All-Ireland-winning goalkeeper James McGarry.

A strike threat by airline catering workers at Dublin Airport has been averted, it emerged tonight.

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Cork Con and Leinster scrum-half Brian O'Meara is to take up player coach duties with Lansdowne for the coming season after signing for the AIB League Division One club today.

Shop stewards representing security staff at Dublin Airport are due to meet tomorrow to discuss the possibility of strike action.

ONLY two out of nine people who claimed they were refused service and discriminated against have had their cases upheld by the Equality Tribunal so far this year.

DANIEL O’Donnell cried in the chapel.

THE blushing bride was late for her big day — but it had nothing to do with being fashionable.

Fans of country singer Daniel O’Donnell today began gathering to catch a glimpse of the star’s wedding.

THE mother of all tea parties will be held in Donegal shortly when Daniel O’Donnell ties the knot with the new love in his life.

SIPTU and the NBRU, the two unions representing the disputing Dublin bus drivers, are engaged in behind the scenes talks to try to get their members back to work.