Parents want better local procedures to deal with complaints about teachers, which could prevent the need to hold fitness-to-teach inquiries.

A Dublin man with a previous drugs conviction has been sent back to jail for 10 years after he was found with almost €28,000 of cannabis herb, cocaine and heroin in his home and car.

Irish software for android tablets, which offers medication reminders as well as helping older people to stay in contact with family and care givers, is going down well in Australia, writes Trish Dromey

The Department of Finance has spent over €280,000 over the past year in third level and training courses for its staff, new figures show.

A Dublin man with a previous drugs conviction could face going back to jail for possessing almost €28,000 of cannabis herb, cocaine, and heroin in his home and car.

Love/Hate’s opener created quite a stir. Actor Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and writer Stuart Carolan give Colette Sheridan their take on the hit drama

Ireland all rounder Paul Mooney has announced his retirement from both international and representative cricket.

Jacques Kallis survived two chances to score his 61st one-day international half-century and steer South Africa to a seven-wicket win over Ireland in their World Cup Super Eight match at Providence Stadium in Guyana.

IRELAND’S cricketers fought bravely but they were soundly beaten by South Africa in their World Cup Super Eight match at Providence Stadium, Guyana yesterday.

Ireland posted 152 for eight in today’s rain-affected World Cup Super Eight match against South Africa in Guyana.

Ireland enhanced their reputation as a cricketing country of note when they inflicted a seven-wicket victory over Canada in their World Cup warm-up match at St Augustine’s Sir Frank Worrell ground.

Dave Langford-Smith continued his impressive tour of the West Indies, grabbing four for 41 as Ireland dismissed Canada for 115 off 32.5 overs in their World Cup warm-up match at the Sir Frank Worrell ground in Trinidad.

IRELAND blew a great chance for a shock win over South Africa after slumping to a 35-run defeat in their World Cup warm-up match at the Sir Frank Worrell grounds yesterday.

Ireland blew a great chance for a shock win over South Africa after slumping to a 35-run defeat in their World Cup warm-up match at the Sir Frank Worrell grounds today.

Ireland’s preparations for the ICC World Cricket League in Nairobi could not have gone better, according to wicketkeeper-batsman Niall O’Brien.

Ireland have named a squad of 12 for their final C&G game with Somerset at Stormont on Sunday June 25.

A row broke out moments after former football star Gordon Durie was branded a “Rangers b******” by a young man, a court heard today.

Middlesex’s Ed Joyce hit his second century of the ICC Trophy to snatch Ireland a last-gasp victory at Stormont.

Ireland’s dream of qualifying for their first World Cup moved a step closer to becoming a reality when they defeated Uganda at a blustery Conber.

Scotland skipper Craig Wright threw the gauntlet down to his batsmen after they seized control to set up a thrilling finale in their Inter Continental Cup qualifier against Ireland in Clontarf.

The Irish squad to face the West Indies in the two Bank of Ireland One Day Internationals on Wednesday June 16 and Thursday June 17 has been named.

The Irish cricket team to take on Northamptonshire in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy on May 30 has been named as follows:

Two more former Blackrock College students were tonight found guilty of violent disorder surrounding the killing of Brian Murphy outside the Burlington Hotel in August 2000.

A prosecuting barrister in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial has urged the jury to leave all feeling of sympathy aside and to decide the outcome of the case on the evidence it heard in the witness box.

Student Brian Murphy received a "flying kick" from a youth in a beige top who then told his friends "this is great craic", a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Irish Cricket Union has announced the following squad for the tour of England.

The Irish selectors have picked an experienced squad of 12 for their one-day internationals against Zimbabwe and South Africa.

It was a day of more downs than ups for Ireland yesterday as MCC gained the initiative at the start of the three-day match at the Mardyke.