More than 2,000 people took part in a protest in Letterkenny, County Donegal this afternoon against the planned downgrading of the local hospital.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has conveyed his sympathies following the deaths of eight men in a horrific road accident in Donegal.

DID you happen to see the Heineken Cup final (albeit on Sky)? There was a defining moment in the second half.

POSTURING has begun ahead of the by-election to fill the Dáil seat vacated with Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher’s departure for Europe.

Sinn Féin will today launch its first phase of the party’s campaign against the Lisbon Reform Treaty.

Opposition politicians today joined with around 200 student protestors to demand the immediate introduction of proposed laws to reform the grants system.

Ruairí Quinn TD and Senator Pearse Doherty will deliver public addresses calling for urgent enactment of the Student Support Bill when they speak in support of students at a demonstration outside the Dáil this morning.

Teenagers across the island of Ireland should be given free driving lessons in school to help reduce the number of young people dying on the roads, Sinn Féin claimed today.