A garda sergeant had a rock thrown at his head and told his colleague he was “a goner” as they came under fire from a violent group. He fell to the ground and the other officer, who was also injured, shielded the fallen sergeant from further harm.

A family of eight who were last seen on Wednesday have been found safe and well, it has been confirmed.

A 22-year-old father of seven and his 46-year-old father of 16 were among five people charged in district court yesterday in relation to an incident that saw a garda hospitalised with a serious head wound and another injured.

SNIFFER-DOGS, air support units and Garda units carried out extensive searches just outside Cork city following the ambush-style murder of a 42-year-old father of three near Blarney on Thursday afternoon.

FOLLOWING his classy display against Kildare, Martin Clarke refused to accept RTÉ’s man-of-the-match award.

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The draw for the 2008 oneills.com Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Football Sevens was announced today at the launch at Croke Park.

WHILE the starter home market may be slow at present, mid and upper ranges houses are ticking over, slowly perhaps, but ticking nonetheless.

The Protestant Orange Order has claimed that the Good Friday Agreement is incapable of delivering fair and just government and insisted there can be no cabinet places for Sinn Féin until the IRA has disappeared.

The search for three generations of a family feared drowned in the Irish Sea was today concentrating on an oil slick four miles off the Northern Ireland coast.

Three generations of a family missing at sea were on a final fishing trip before their boat was to be decommissioned, it was revealed today.

Three members of the same family were missing today after a small fishing boat vanished in the Irish Sea.