A COUNTY councillor whose son committed suicide before Christmas has launched a public awareness campaign in a bid to stop other families going through a similar trauma.

THE featured Topaz Mile EBF Handicap at Galway last night was won in the proverbial canter by the Joe Murphy trained Ask Jack.

The grief-stricken relatives of an Irish couple killed in a car crash in America were tonight making plans to bring their bodies home.

SAFETY is paramount in any sport, but particularly in motorsport. From the start of next season, the HANS device will be compulsory in Irish rallying.

An Irish aid worker who drowned in Ghana just over a week ago is due to be laid to rest in Co Galway today.

A Co Galway man, whose wife allegedly sustained serious brain damage around the time of the delivery of her twin girls almost 25 years ago, has settled his legal action for damages against the Western Health Board.

A woman aged in her eighties died when her car struck a ditch in Co Tipperary earlier today.

A 42-year-old man has died after the tractor he was driving overturned in Co Galway last night.

MACRA NA FEIRME yesterday announced the election of two new vice-presidents for Munster and Leinster.

Four people have died on Ireland's roads over the weekend, bringing the death toll from road accidents so far this year to 180.

FOUR people died in separate car accidents within the space of 12 hours in another weekend of road carnage.

Gardaí have released the names of two people killed in overnight accidents.

A woman in her 60s has died in a single vehicle traffic accident in Galway.