The HSE contributed more than €1m to a charity where the parents of the chief executive received payments in excess of €84.000 unbeknownst to its other trustees.

Like the mythical phoenix rising from the ashes, a popular public house was back in business last night, having been rebuilt following a fire two years ago.

I nervously went up to Coom, on the Cork-Kerry border, to be taught how to shear. It was akin to shaving while arm-wrestling, says Conor Power

Marts: Heavy continental bullocks were a superb trade at Bandon Mart yesterday where up to €510 over €/kg was paid for choice lots at one of the largest sales of cattle at the centre for some time.

Dr Tim Creedon, Director of the Institute of Technology Tallaght has expressed his sympathy to the friends and family of the two students who died in a house fire in Lorient, in France.