Detectives questioned a couple yesterday in connection with the gangland murder of Benny Whitehouse, who was gunned down after he dropped off his children to a school and creche.

Gardaí investigating last Thursday's fatal shooting of Benjamin (Benny) Whitehouse at Clonard Street, Balbriggan, Co Dublin have arrested a man this morning.

A 30-year-old man was missing last night after a fire broke out in the funeral home he was working in.

A mentally ill patient with a persistent choking problem was denied access to essential speech and language therapy as the HSE did not have a service for adults in mental health facilities.

Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has called for more light to be shone on allegations that elite Garda officers colluded with a convicted drug trafficker.

An Irish teenager has been charged with threatening to shoot and kill the president of Guyana during what his lawyer said was an alcohol-fuelled conversation with two of the leader’s bodyguards.

Women left out of a redress scheme for former patients of disgraced surgeon Michael Neary have urged Health Minister James Reilly to keep his promise that he would look after them.

A payment of €250 per acre for the first 80 acres for active farmers was one of the CAP reform proposals put to the EU’s Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos during his recent visit to Ireland.

ABP Renewables subsidiary AGRI has opened a state-of-the-art bio diesel plant in Liverpool, England, on the back of its recent multi-million pound investment into bio diesel production.

A woman whose womb was needlessly removed by disgraced obstetrician Michael Neary said today that her fight for justice was almost over.

ENTERPRISE Minister Richard Bruton has denied that he refused to meet with officials of the Irish Farmers’ Association, as an estimated 8,000 farmers marched on his office in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of four children.

Gardaí have arrested two men in connection with the weekend's fatal shooting of a man in Ardee, Co Louth.

A second man has presented himself with non-life threatening gun shot at a Dublin hospital after a man's body was discovered in Ardee, Co Louth.

A judge has ordered that a garda be found not guilty of assaulting a suspect despite comparing the incident to the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles.

A garda accused of beating a suspect following a high-speed chase used justified force according to colleagues who gave evidence at his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TALLANSTOWN, a village in Co Louth with a population of about 600, has taken the title of Ireland’s Tidiest Town 2010.

AMMUNITION, a firearm and balaclavas have been seized in an anti-dissident operation by armed gardaí which led to the arrest of five men.

MORE than 800 mental health patients are still housed in psychiatric hospitals labelled as “Dickensian deplorable and appalling” despite repeated Government promises to shut them down.

The man killed in a single-vehicle crash in Ardee, Co Louth last night has been identified as 31-year-old Paul Healion, a leading cyclist who had been due to compete in this week's Tour of Ireland as a member of the national team.

THE country’s €1.6 billion beef export trade and its production base are being damaged as a result of cattle prices being reduced by processors, the Irish Farmers Association president Padraig Walshe claimed yesterday.

AS ONE older voter put it to Nessa Childers, who is campaigning to win a seat for Labour in the East constituency: “Right party, right name, right time.”

The Garda Ombudsman is to widen investigations into garda links to a drug dealer after it emerged he secured an official international road haulier’s licence.

Corrupt gardaí may be protecting a convicted drug trafficker from going to jail, it was claimed today.

THE Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is considering whether to set up a special investigation into alleged links between a convicted drug dealer and members of a Garda unit.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has arrested a man as part of an investigation into revenue offences, gardaí said.

A couple and their children are recovering today after they were threatened by a gang that broke into their house in Ardee, Co Louth, early today.

A 20-year-old man was killed in a car-crash at St John’s Fort in Ardee, Co Louth last night.

Gardaí have lost documents relating to the drink-driving arrest of former Republic of Ireland soccer star Niall Quinn, it emerged today.

SATELLITE-based technology on modern machinery can help farmers to meet their cross-compliance environmental obligations under the European Union's new single payment system.

Four people died in accidents on Ireland’s roads over the weekend, bringing the death toll so far this year to 205.

A religious order that once ran a Co Louth hospital where an obstetrician unnecessarily removed the wombs of more than 60 women, today apologised for what happened and backed calls for a full inquiry.

An obstetrician was struck off the register of medical practitioners tonight following claims by more than 60 women that he unnecessarily removed their wombs.

FARMERS are going ahead with overnight cattle price protests from tomorrow evening outside the six meat factories owned by the country’s largest processing group, AIBP.

FOUR people died in weekend road accidents, bringing the number killed on Irish roads so far this year to 253.

The motorcyclist killed in an accident in Co Louth yesterday afternoon has been named as 23-year old John Carroll from Rathbody in Ardee, Co Louth.

Three people have been killed in overnight road accidents.