Des O’Sullivan predicts keen interest in a quality Dublin auction.

Compared to other years the New Year in the Irish art and antiques market should hit the ground running.

DESPITE the rebound in the hotels sector in Dublin echoes of the crash can be found in The Hotel Sale Part II in Naas on Tuesday at 2pm

A Kildare man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to the possession of explosive substances.

A lorry has jack-knifed and shed its load on the M7 motorway in Co. Laois.

IRELAND’S awful summer has seen the worst top temperatures for almost 50 years and the coldest August for two decades with forecasters writing off the rest of the summer they branded a “stinker”.

The M7 Limerick/Dublin Road has reopened southbound but remains closed northbound as a truck which was on fire is removed south of the J15 road to Ballybrittas.

A mother of four who bludgeoned her husband to death and whose children appealed for her not to be jailed for the crime, has been given a five-year suspended sentence at the Central Criminal Court.

A mother of four who killed her husband by bludgeoning him over the head with a hammer 23 times is to be sentenced for his manslaughter today.

A man was killed today when his car crashed into a ditch.

A 56-year-old mother of four was today cleared of her husband's murder by reason of diminished responsibility, following just 30 minutes of deliberations by the jury.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her husband with a hammer has been instructed that the only verdicts open to them are guilty of murder, or guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

The daughter of a woman accused of murdering her husband of 32 years at their Co Laois home, has told the trial that her earliest memory is seeing her father point a shotgun at her mother and threaten to “blow her head off.”

A mother-of-four accused of murdering her husband in Co Laois two years ago told gardaí that he assaulted her on their wedding night, and the abuse continued throughout their 32-year marriage.

The defence counsel for one of the four men accused of shooting a Limerick bouncer standing trial at the Central Criminal Court has told the chief prosecution witness that he could not have gone to collect a gun from his client at any point on the day of the murder.

Gardaí have released the woman arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of Co Laois man Pat Burke earlier this month.

Gardaí have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of Pat Burke in Co Laois earlier this month.

The funeral of the Co Laois man found murdered at his home on Sunday night is taking place today.

Gardaí say they have recovered what they believe to be a murder weapon from the home of murdered Laois man Pat Burke.

A father found murdered in his Co Laois home died from several blows to the head by a blunt instrument, it was confirmed today.

Gardaí investigating the death of a 55-year-old man at a house in Co Laois on Sunday night have formally upgraded the case to a murder inquiry.

A POSTMORTEM last night revealed that a man murdered in Co Laois on Sunday night died from multiple blows to the head from a blunt instrument.

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 55-year-old man at a house in Co Laois overnight.

A man is dead and a woman is in a critical condition following a serious car crash this afternoon on the M7 near Monasterevin in Co Kildare.

A GRIEF-STRICKEN mother yesterday said there are thousands of “hidden victims” of road smashes as she made the long, difficult walk to the site of her daughter’s death.

Around 1,900 people have been seriously injured on the country’s roads so far this year, safety chiefs warned today.

A STRANGER ambling through Laois or Kildare this past two weeks would be forgiven for thinking it was a boxing or wrestling show in the pipeline this week.

A 38-year-old man has died after the car he was driving collided with a truck in Co Laois this morning.

No expense has been spared on The Heritage, in Laois, Seve Ballesteros’ first course design project in this country. Charlie Mulqueen visited the €100m development.

Three men have died in separate road accidents in Co Longford, Co Laois and Co Dublin this morning.

Two people were killed in separate road accidents overnight.