Sixteen new fire stations will be built and another 10 refurbished over the next five years.

A planned distillery project in Carlow has been hit with a €500,000 bill from Irish Water, the Dáil heard.

Iarnród Éireann may feel flushed with success from its latest cost-cutting exercise, but it won’t please people who get caught short at stations where it has closed public toilets.

A car used during a cash-in-transit van robbery has been found burnt-out in County Carlow.

Gardaí in Co Carlow are appealing for information following a cash-in-transit robbery which occurred this afternoon at the Aldi Supermarket in Bagenalstown.

The roads surrounding the scene of a fire at a disused factory in Carlow town have now re-opened.

Locals in Carlow town are being warned to stay indoors as emergency services battle a fire at a disused factory due to the toxic materials burning and rising into the air.

Emergency services are battling a fire at the old Erin Foods Factory in Carlow.

Former Ireland soccer international, Niall Quinn is set for a loss of around €2.5m on his ill-fated Co Carlow property venture.

The father of a man killed in a suspected hit-and-run last night said: "I would love to see the person who did this caught."

A woman in her 70s has died in a collision in Co Carlow.

More families are bringing court challenges against the Department of Social Protection over its refusal to grant them Domiciliary Care Allowance, and in many cases are bypassing the department’s appeals system altogether.

A 43-year-old man has been sent forward for trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murders of his sons.

Sanjeev Chada appeared in court in Roscommon again today, charged with the murder of his two sons.

An inquest has found that a farmer fatally wounded by multiple gunshots was unlawfully killed, while his brother-in-law, found later in a nearby farm shed, died by suicide.

THE craft beer industry in Ireland is thriving in a time of national recession.

The funerals of Ruairi and Eoghan Chada will take place in Co Carlow today.

The home where Eoghan, 10, and Ruairí, 5, Chada grew up was cordoned off yesterday by gardaí to ensure their grief stricken mother and her family and friends could mourn in private.

The father of two Co Carlow brothers has appeared in court charged with his sons' murders in Co Mayo.

Carlow man Sanjeev Chada is to appear before a special sitting of Swinford District Court at 9pm this evening charged in connection with the murders of his sons Eoghan (10) and Ruairi (5).

Community figures close to the extended Chada family in Co Carlow are perplexed at how Sanjeev Chada’s financial troubles may have triggered his extreme behaviour, ending in the death of his two children.

The two boys whose bodies were found in the boot of their father’s car are expected to be buried in their home village at the weekend.

The bodies of five-year-old Ruairi and 10-year-old Eoghan are being returned home to Ballinkillen near Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, for their funerals in the coming days.

Sanjeev Chada was “deeply loved” by his wife Kathleen, regarded locally as a friendly, gentle, quiet man who was extremely close to his two sons.

Parents gathered together in little huddles and went in and out of Ballinkillen NS yesterday, to hear how best they can tell their own children about what happened to Eoghan and Ruairí Chada, while just a few hundred metres away Kathleen Chada was attempting to take in the enormity of her loss.

Detectives in two counties are investigating the deaths of two children found dead in a car driven by their father.

Gardaí were last night waiting to question a man in connection with the death of his two children after a nationwide search for them.

Relatives were last night trying to comfort Kathleen Chada, the devastated mother of Eoghan, 10, and Ruairi, 5, whose bodies were discovered just hours after gardaí issued a major alert in a bid to establish their whereabouts.

Two children have died in a car accident after they went missing with their father.

Gardaí have issued the first alert on their emergency child rescue system after a father and his two young children disappeared.

Although beer sales generally are falling, Carlow Brewing Company has found that demand for O’Hara’s craft beers and stouts are going up, both here in recession-beaten Ireland and abroad.

“Probably the most committed bunch of players I’ve ever been involved with” — that’s manager John Meyler on the Carlow squad that takes on Laois tomorrow in Portlaoise in the Leinster SHC quarter-final.

By Conor Kane

Agri-food firms Danone and Tanco have won the two top prizes at the Ireland France Business Awards.

Gardaí and Iarnród Éireann have launched investigations after a train driver was taken to hospital when a large rock was thrown through his cabin window.

Aussie Rules-bound Ciaran Kilkenny will play at least one more game of Gaelic football before he links up with the Hawthorn club next month.

The woman who lost her husband and her brother in last week’s Carlow murder-suicide said there was “never once a cross word” between them.

Hilda Jordan yesterday did what no woman should ever have to as she buried her husband and brother within a matter of hours.

The funerals take place later of two farmers found dead in Carlow last week.

The funerals of brothers-in-law George Rothwell and Michael Jordan will take place today following moving scenes last night.

The funerals of the two farmers killed in an apparent murder-suicide in Co Carlow on Wednesday are likely to be delayed after their bodies were only released last night to their families.