IT began when Michael Hyde went to plant trees on scrub land in the estate he inherited from a cousin in Co Galway nearly 60 years ago.

A man who celebrated after delivering a fatal punch in a “gratuitous” assault on journalist Eugene Moloney has been jailed for three and a half years.

'Voice of Ireland' judge Bressie has blamed parents for the violence at Phoenix Park last weekend.

Cork’s best-known youth body has completed a historic merger with Ireland’s leading youth organisation to create the country’s largest lobby group for young people.

Irish Blood, English Heart

Two men were refused bail today after they were charged with false imprisonment and robbery of €134,000 in connection with a Tiger kidnapping in Dublin last January.

TWO of the winners of this year’s Macra na Feirme National Leadership Awards are from Co Cork, with the third recipient coming from Roscommon.

A SURVEY of the effects of the recession on teenagers has found more than a quarter believe money worries are causing more tension in the home.

A new survey has indicated that over a quarter (29%) of Irish teenagers say there is more tension at home due to money worries with a general limit on household spending now an economic reality for 37% of the 12- to 17-year-olds polled.

THEY may have more opportunities for education, travel, work and wealth but the majority of young people think they have a harder life than their predecessors a decade ago.

The inquest into the death of Terence Wheelock has resumed at the Dublin City Coroner's Court.

A raft of injuries have not helped London's preparations for their Connacht SFC preliminary round clash with Leitrim on Sunday (Ruislip, throw-in 3pm).

A retired member of the Garda Special Branch has been jailed for five years and disqualified from driving for 15 years for drunk driving causing death and serious injury.

A retired Garda detective who knocked down two teenage girls and killed a 71-year-old man while drink-driving has no memory of the events, a court heard today.

A 40-year-old man who molested his then 13-year-old nephew and e-mailed naked photographs of the teenager to an acquaintance, has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.