After the ‘lost’ years of recession, funding for maintenance and building of roads is on the agenda, says Áilín Quinlan

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has welcomed the decision by the final beef blockade to stand down its protest after repeated Government warnings a failure to end the dispute could risk the future of the entire industry.

Mayo farmer Brendan Kilduff, who received fatal gunshot wounds on Tuesday night last, was described at his funeral Mass as “a man of the land, a man of family, a man of the parish, a generous soul.”

A post-mortem has been completed but results aren't being released for operational reasons.

A man, 80s, arrested in connection with the shooting remains in custody at Castlebar Garda Station.

Gerard Gough participated in the talks convened by the Minister for Agriculture at the weekend and brought the resultant deal to picketing farmers in Ballyhaunis.

Peace has broken out at all Dawn Meats factories affected by the beef price blockade after the High Court heard today that permanent orders restraining trespass and intimidation could be made with the consent of named protesters who had taken part in disruptive nation-wide protests.

A multimillion-euro meat deal with China is under threat because of farmer protests outside processing plants, it has been claimed.

The owners of up to a dozen meat plants today have been granted temporary High Court injunctions restraining groups of protesters from blockading their factories and intimidating staff and suppliers.

A quarter of a century in New York has done little to dampen Seán Price’s Kerry accent — or his passion for talking football.

Serious breaches of environmental regulations have been found at a Co Cork landfill site, where inspectors discovered crucial IT equipment for monitoring gases and leachate had been out of action for two years.

A Mayo family has picked up their winnings from a Daily Million Plus draw.

As presenter and commentator on Newstalk’s Off the Ball, Nathan Murphy has seen the show go from strength to strength and diversify to cater for its growing audience of sports fans.

A Co Mayo-based chicken-processing firm has been ordered to pay €17,000 to a woman it unfairly dismissed while off sick days after suffering a miscarriage.

After a decade of suffering, Galway football supporters are beginning to believe again.

A court has heard a Mayo man on trial for murdering his baby son has since had another child with the same partner.

A forensic pathologist told the trial of a father accused of murdering his six-month-old son that a tear to the inside of the child's throat would usually be seen in cases involving punches, blows or severe struggle.

Residential property prices increased by 12.5% in the year to January.

A 40-year-old man has gone on trial accused of murdering his baby son in county Mayo.

Australia-bound Cora Staunton scored 4-13 and yet it still wasn’t enough to secure another Connacht senior club title for holders Carnacon on Sunday.

In 2004, Fiona McHale joined up with a Mayo team that had won four of the last five All-Ireland titles. She has long become the oil in the green and red engine, but the medal she presumed would come still hasn’t arrived. Tomorrow, against Dublin, she dreams again.

The latest census results show that while there has been a slight drop in the number of non-Irish nationals living here, there has been a notable increase in the number of those with dual citizenships.

THE latest tranche of census results shows that there has been a drop in the number of non-Irish living here.

Galway is the most multicultural city in Ireland, with 18.6% of its resident population recorded as non-Irish, according to the latest Census.

Five people, including a seven-year-old-boy, have been killed in two separate crashes in Co Cork and Co Mayo.

Latest: The Gardaí have confirmed that three people, including one child, who were critically injured in the crash in Mayo, have died.

There is “now little doubt” that the Government’s Help-to-Buy scheme has fuelled property price hikes, according to an economist, with latest figures showing the highest rise in prices in two years.

Volkswagen has pleaded guilty to three felony counts as part of a $4.3bn (€4bn) plea agreement reached with the US Justice Department in January over the carmaker’s massive diesel emissions scandal.

A judge said yesterday that “there is nothing as appalling as a liar” after ruling that a speeding motorist perjured himself in the witness box.

A Co Mayo law firm representing hundreds of claimants has become the first in Europe to have a case relating to the global Volkswagen emissions scandal heard in court.

IF IRELAND intends to be the best small country in the world in which to do business, something will have to be done about the country’s prehistoric broadband infrastructure.

I met a man this week in Galway City who was a close friend in summers way back then, when we were all young and free and footloose, and happy as the fabled Larry.

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

After running into Gerry Adams in Sligo and having the unveiling of his supports for older people overshadowed by a group of people intent of doing away with old age altogether — namely Dublin criminals —Enda Kenny was in need of a nice, easy campaign stop.

With another year at Examiner Towers almost over we will - over the next few weeks - be taking a look at irishexaminer.com's most read stories for 2015. We continue this series today with our lifestyle section.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

As Ireland prepares give shelter to some 3,500 refugees from the Middle East and Africa, Edwin McGreal travelled to our most cosmopolitan town to see what we can learn about integration from Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo

It can’t be easy juggling a one year old and a new political party. From motherhood to gym classes, renting to creche fees, Lucinda Creighton tells all to John Meagher.

They are the benchwarmers. The twilight-zoners. The panel-fillers. The cliche we hear on the Hogan steps: Everybody from one to 35 played their part. Is there truth in it? Or even comfort?