A dog owner in Wicklow says he has been left devastated after his pet Chihuahua appeared to have been killed in a disturbing manner last week.

Update 25/08/2017: Lauren Brennan has been located safe and well.

Revenue’s Customs service has delivered another blow to trafficking gangs supplying the lucrative Christmas market with the seizure of 85kg of herbal cannabis, worth around €1.7m.

In a brief moment of vulnerability last February, Eamonn Fitzmaurice contemplated the loss of Colm Cooper this year, and wondered why such bad luck had befallen him.

Peter Delaney tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his prizewinning picture in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Venue: Mick Lally Theatre, Galway

The Irish Centre in London’s Camden Town is re-branding as it celebrates its 60th Paddy’s Day, writes Claire Droney.

Step House Hotel, Co Carlow

Right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming loved life, said a minister at her funeral.

Gardaí in Wicklow are appealing for the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of a missing 51-year-old Dublin man.

The body of a man in his 70s has been recovered from the water at the Meeting of the waters, near Avoca in county Wicklow.

A search and rescue operation is underway at the Meeting of the Waters, near Avoca, in County Wicklow, after a man in his 70s fell into the water.

People who are on the brink and can pay no more are “willing and ready to stand together” against the household charge, campaigners have claimed.

Two men have been arrested following an armed robbery at a post office in Lismore, Co Waterford this morning.

Conor McCabe’s The Sins of the Father is the latest attempt to explain our economic collapse and is by far and away the best, writes Tom O’Connor

GARDAÍ are this morning continuing to interrogate two adult males in connection with a €1.5 million drugs find in a private house yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí in Co. Wicklow are continuing to question a man and a woman about a major drugs seizure yesterday.

A man who died after a pub row over a football match was struck by a car after being punched to the ground, it was revealed today.

GARDAÍ now believe a man found dead in the Wicklow village of Avoca died after being hit by a passing car and not from a blow he received during a row outside a pub.

Investigations are continuing today into the death of Brian Doyle in the Co. Wicklow village of Avoca.

GARDAÍ suspect a drink-fuelled row over a football match may have led to the violent death of a man in the picturesque Wicklow village of Avoca.

Gardaí have named the man who died following an assault in Avoca, Co Wicklow last night as 48-year-old Brian Doyle.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a man in his forties in County Wicklow last night.

Oirish stereotypes abound gloriously in the Carney brothers’ wonderful comedy, and you couldn’t possibly be offended.

I USED to think Shillelagh was a placename invented for American movies.

A HIGH COURT judge yesterday described as “derisory” a €700,000 settlement that the family of one of two schoolgirls secured arising from an accident in which both teenagers died after being struck by a tractor/trailer carrying silage bales.

A MOTORIST had an amazing escape in a collision when a crash barrier sliced through his car — missing him by inches.

The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, announced today that consultants CDM have been appointed to carry out a major study for the management and remediation of the Avoca mining area.

Two men in their 20s have died in separate road accidents in Co Wicklow and Co Meath this morning.

Gold and silver exploration company Minco this morning released an interim statement announcing progress on its Mexican Laguna silver project as well as drilling in Central Asia and Ireland.

At today's AGM of Irish exploration company Minco (formerly Irish Marine Oil) chairman John J Teeling said that the company has seen a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes, indicated by a 200% increase in share prices.

Minco, the Irish-focused zinc and gold explorer, have commented on the difficulties facing exploration companies.

THE framed photographs at the altar were of happier times.

SEVEN people were killed in five separate accidents on another black weekend on the roads.

Gardaí at Avoca in Co Wicklow are appealing for witnesses to an accident that happened at lunchtime today.

Two teenage girls have died following an accident in Co Wicklow around lunchtime.

An historic Co Wicklow hotel has been badly damaged by fire.

The Department of Agriculture is playing down a fresh foot-and-mouth scare in Bray, Co Wicklow.