Developers have lodged plans for nearly 3,600 homes in four sites in Dublin and Cork.

A woman was knocked to the ground and was assaulted in a West Cork town over the weekend with the attack ending when the assailant was interrupted by three passers-by.

More than 50 incidents on Irish railways including nine fatalities were examined by inspectors from the Railway Accident Investigation Unit (RAIU) last year.

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has reiterated his commitment to eradication of bovine TB in Ireland by 2030.

Waterways Ireland now believes the sighting is actually the native Irish otter.

A new Dublin train station is coming down the track for commuters.

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A man is due in court later in connection with the seizure of a handgun and ammunition in West Dublin.

Gardaí are continuing to detain a man and a woman in Dublin, following an operation targeting gangland crime.

Local representatives have called for a meeting between Dublin City Council and Irish Rail to finally close off a ‘short cut’ at which a father and son died at the weekend.

Update 1.14pm: Calls are being made for increased safety measures at a Dublin railway track following the death of a three-year-old and his father yesterday.

Parents in an East Cork community are to be asked, for the second time in two years, for their preferred patron for a new primary school

A university student who admitted being in possession of over €3,000 worth of cannabis has avoided a conviction after a judge applied the Probation Act.

Transport links and power supplies across the country are facing major disruption, because of the hurricane-force winds today.

Teagasc is partnering with the University of East Anglia in the €9m EU-funded Aquavalens project to improve the safety of European drinking water.

A family of three, who had to flee their home for their own safety in the middle of the night, has been awarded damages for assault against a Dublin businessman and landlord and his two sons.

Historically, the market for cooked meats was in bulk product, that was then sliced in the corner shop and the supermarket. This is rapidly changing and the market is now demanding product that is ready sliced and ready to go

Goatsbridge Trout Farm, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, has won approval with Russian buyers for their latest product — Ireland’s first trout caviar.

SEAWEED exporters have been given a welcome lift by new Teagasc research that confirms that marine plant products extracted from seas around Ireland and Canada are good for the heart.

GARDAÍ are “mystified” as to why two “decent enough” young men were gunned down by a professional hit team at a garage.

IRELAND has taken a step closer to its food innovation ambitions with the opening of Teagasc’s new Nutraceutical Research Facility in the Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin are making a fresh appeal to members of the public with information about a double shooting in the capital to come foward.

A Swedish animal charity has rescued some dogs from Ireland, reports Donald Mahoney in Sweden

SMALL food businesses are about to gain unprecedented access to industry -related scientific research, thanks to a targeted new outreach programme from Teagasc.

IRISH researchers have developed a salmonella testing kit that has drastically reduced the time required to complete a standard test.

FOR the second time in a week, Dubliners were faced with a massive clean-up operation after torrential rain caused localised flooding.

GARDAÍ have dealt a blow to a big drug trafficking gang after arresting three key members red-handed at a heroin-mixing centre.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man was charged yesterday in connection with a 20kg seizure of heroin in Dublin on Monday.

TWO newly appointed food technologists will provide technical support primarily for artisan meat and dairy businesses, for two years.

THE appointment of two food technologists, who will based at the Teagasc research centres in Moorepark and Ashtown, was announced yesterday by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission is appealing for witnesses to a fatal road traffic incident in which a 77-year-old woman died after being struck by a car driven by an off-duty garda.

IARNRÓD Éireann’s corporate communications manager Barry Kenny, in his lambasting of economist Dr Seán Barrett (Irish Examiner letters, January 1), writes that “this country still suffers from an infrastructural deficit”, and by this he meant rail and bus infrastructure. I agree.

A 61-year-old Scottish man was jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin this evening after he was convicted of the murder of 54-year-old Waterford mother-of-two Mary "Mamie" Walsh.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court was told today that the lies told by the accused man are not proof of his guilt.

A 54-year-old loan company agent was hassled by phone calls from an unknown man in the days before her death, a murder trial jury heard today.

The man accused of killing a 54-year-old loan company agent was a “Walter Mitty” a murder trial jury heard today.

A 54-year-old mother-of-two died from severe head injuries caused by multiple blows with a blunt object, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 54-year-old loan company agent was killed for the money she was due to lodge in the bank, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A team from Teagasc is participating in a research project to analyse food chains in six European countries.