A teenage economist from the Taoiseach’s own ‘backyard’ has called out the Government’s performance on job creation at the SAS Young Economist of the Year awards at the Kilkenomics festival.

Budding journalists of the future were honoured yesterday at the inaugural awards ceremony for an educational project devised by the National Newspapers of Ireland.

A man has died after he was trapped inside a burning house in Ballina, Co Tipperary.

UP to 150 priests are expected to gather in Portlaoise today for the inaugural meeting of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) — a reform-driven organisation which is aiming to “stand for moral courage”.

A DEFIANT Brian Cowen has slapped down any suggestion that the direction of the National Assets Management Agency project can be altered to appease disgruntled voices within his government.

A TIPPERARY woman whose delayed cancer diagnosis cost her a breast has warned that a report into the circumstances of her care contains shocking findings.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the seven-year sentence imposed on a man who twice tried to have his estranged wife killed.

A woman who was mistakenly given the all-clear after a botched breast cancer biopsy is to meet with outgoing Minister for Health Mary Harney, it emerged tonight.

IT is unconscionable that a unit for autistic children should be facing a threat of closure because of the failure to sanction a permanent teaching post.

The Irish Republic's long-running economic boom has been hit by more than 500 job losses within 24 hours.