The coronavirus continues to disrupt travel and business operations across Ireland, Britain and Europe.

Thousands of jobs could be lost “within weeks” in the tourism and hospitality industry unless urgent State support is provided to the sector.

A judge hailed the return of a wedding band found on a beach as “a happy ending”, after Gardaí initially requested a forfeiture order after failing to find the owner.

Ireland’s tourism industry is under “considerable pressure”, with costs, Brexit uncertainty, and the coronavirus all potential headwinds this year, a leading economist has warned.

After withstanding a determined first-half effort by Leitrim, Galway ran out easy winners in today’s Connacht U20 semi-final in Orchard Park, Elphin.

Paul Kelly established the suicide prevention charity in 2002.

History has been made at the National Basketball Arena as Tradehouse Central Ballincollig became the first team to win three consecutive President’s Cup titles this afternoon with a superb 73-67 overtime win over IT Carlow Basketball in a thriller.

A man with 424 previous convictions was ordered by a judge to go back and mop the cell he was staying in after he had urinated in it.

Eanna coach Darrem McGovern believes his side were at the wrong end of a vital decision in this game.

There was another night to remember at the end of a remarkable year as the Irish Golf Writers’ Association crowned Open champion Shane Lowry its Professional Player of the Year at its annual Allianz-sponsored awards.

A woman is facing dozens of charges relating to the theft of amounts totalling almost €75,000 from a creamery and more charges of false accounting to cover it up.

Ireland’s strike rate in Group D is their lowest after seven qualifiers since 1985 (0.57)

Solicitor for the accused, Mr Patsy Gallagher, said his client had intended to help the boy's mother as he was misbehaving in the shop.

Fáilte Ireland CEO Paul Kelly said their plans included opening 25 new and improved visitor attractions next year.

The head of Fáilte Ireland has warned, in its annual report, the attractiveness of Ireland as a holiday destination could be damaged unless a regional imbalance in the tourism industry is addressed.

We're not sure exactly how much of this game Michael Darragh Macauley will remember and, in truth, that shouldn't bother the Dublin great too much.

A group of friends stole a keg of Guinness by wheeling it down the road to a house in a shopping trolley.

A man who, along with an accomplice, tracked a 72-year-old woman home from Lidl after clocking her bank card pin, stole the card, and withdrew €700 from her bank account in what a judge later described as a “low and wicked crime” that involved “malevolent surveillance”.

A woman could face jail over the theft of bags of coal from a shop on four different occasions last winter.

A €650m emergency contingency fund was announced to help farmers, businesses, and the tourism industry in a no-deal Brexit scenario.

A major tourism conference is taking place in Dublin today to focus on how to grow the number of Chinese tourists visiting Ireland.

A quantity surveyor downed five drinks before fleeing from gardaí and crashing into a car with five young women in it, a court has heard.

A man who sparked a road rage incident with the driver of a packed school bus containing dozens of children has been fined €300.

A young woman who was caught with a taser gun said she carried it for her own protection after a previous experience.

A well-known ultra-marathon runner followed a woman into a toilet in a Co Donegal pub and sexually assaulted her.

A motorcyclist who first hit a car, then crashed into a house and was then thrown from his vehicle fled the scene when told gardaí were on the way.

Fáilte Ireland plans to invest €150 million in developing major new visitor attractions of scale across the country.

Fáilte Ireland said its €150m fund will develop what it called "major new visitor attractions of scale across the country".

Fáilte Ireland has announced that it will invest €150m into the development of major new visitor attractions across the country.

Fáilte Ireland has confirmed today that 162 international conferences worth €67 million have been secured for Ireland so far this year.

A man who failed to appear in a Dublin district court for alleged trespass was later reported as possibly being lost at sea, and spent three weeks on the water before being escorted ashore.

A Judge has been told that motorists "doing doughnuts" is a particular problem in west Cork after an incident detected by gardaí in which three cars were pulling stunts on the main street of a village.

A man has been sent forward to the criminal court on 18 charges of sexual exploitation of minors using electronic media, including Skype.