Flooding is causing chaos for motorists across the south and west of the country.

Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, where the US’s first Election Day votes were cast and counted early today.

SUFFICIENT land for about 1,000 further houses in Killarney has been zoned by the local town council — despite strong reservations by the Department of the Environment and the National Roads Authority.

NERVOUS candidates in the Wicklow constituency had neither the comfort of hot sweet tea nor spending a penny yesterday after a contamination scare cut the water supply.

A PROTECTED structure has been saved from council demolition by local environmentalists.

IRISH swimming is facing a fresh crisis following allegations of child sex abuse at a pool used by one of the country’s most successful local clubs.

THE teenage boy who died in a jet ski accident in Youghal, Co Cork, should have been forbidden under regulations to operate the privately-owned, high-powered pleasure craft.