The FSAI listed a variety of reasons for non-compliance with food safety laws, including evidence of rodent droppings in kitchen, bar and carvery areas and meat being cut in a room adjacent to the toilets

Christmas came early for the nation's sporting grassroots todayas the Government unveiled details of its €56m capital grants programme.

A quick glance around the club dressing-rooms of Cavan tells Micheal Lyng all he needs to know about the value of what’s on offer in Sunday’s AIB Ulster club SFC final.

A NAMA company has obtained summary judgment for stg£9m against an Irish businessman arising out of his personal guarantee on unpaid loans of some Stg£22m made to a company.

A fortuitous meeting between a literary couple and a celebrity chef has resulted in one of the world’s most lucrative poetry prizes, writes Marjorie Brennan.

It’s time to be surprised by Leitrim’s diverse delights, from the trails of the Shannon-Erne Blueway to a fabulous forest park, writes Des O’Driscoll.

Nightclubs, pubs, and office blocks with reserve prices of over €1m each were among 156 properties sold for a total of €48m at the latest Allsop auction.

THE big hoopla wasn’t the Budget yesterday, it will be the public-sector pay talks next year. Politically and fiscally, that is where the real action is.

A dog had to be put to sleep yesterday after vets discovered why he was walking around in circles — a scan revealed he had 17 pellets lodged in his head.

Rescue teams are searching for a man in his 30s in the River Erne in Co Cavan.

A motorcyclist in his late 20s has been killed in a crash in Co Cavan.

Shopkeepers in a border town are offering to trade in the near obsolete punt to try and turn the clock back on the recession and euro currency crisis.

Former tycoon Sean Quinn could be effectively barred from relaunching his business career after a Belfast court ruled today that his bankruptcy should be dealt with in Dublin.

ONCE upon a long time ago there was only one world heavyweight boxing champion instead of three or four and he was a real hero in rural Ireland.

A TOP official from the former Anglo-Irish bank has told of reading chatrooms linked to the GAA to monitor gossip on the activities of former billionaire Sean Quinn.

The N3 Belturbet Rd in Cavan is closed until further notice at Sean Lee Drive approaching Belturbet following an overnight collision involving a motorcycle.

Work on all major new road projects is to be halted because of a lack of money, it has been reported.

A Cavan man who was found guilty of the murder of a 33-year-old father-of-one has been sentenced to life in prison in the Central Criminal Court today.

A jury at the trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has been sent home for the night having been deliberating for less than an hour in the Central Criminal Court today.

A Cavan man accused of murder told gardaí he would have caused ‘’chaos’’ if he went to the deceased’s funeral, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has heard that firearm residue was found on clothing similar to that allegedly worn by the accused on the morning of the fatal shooting.

A central witness in the case of a Co Cavan man on trial for murder has denied that he has lied to the court and tried to make himself look innocent and “detached” from the killing.

A Garda investigation is underway after a raid on a postal worker's van in Co Cavan.

The jury in the case of a Cavan man accused of shooting a man in the head as he slept next to his girlfriend, has been discharged at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man accused of shooting another man in the head as he slept is due to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday.

A section of the N3 outside Belturbet in Co Cavan which had been closed for a technical examination after a woman died yesterday has re-opened.

A charity has been set up in honour of an Irish United Nations worker killed in the Haitian earthquake.

Tributes have been paid to Irish man Andrew Grene who died in the Haiti earthquake.

The funeral is due to take place later today of the Irishman killed in the Haitian earthquake.

EFFORTS were continuing last night to find an Irishman feared killed in the Haitian earthquake.

Gardaí in Cavan are continuing to question three men arrested as part of an investigation into the activities of dissident republicans.

DETECTIVES yesterday arrested three men suspected of being involved in dissident republican activity during a raid near the Irish border.

Gardaí investigating the activities of dissident republicans have arrested three men in Co. Cavan.

A jury at the trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has failed to reach a verdict.

A jury at the trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has today been sent home for the night, having failed to reach a verdict after a second day of deliberation.

A jury at the trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has been sent home for the night, having been deliberating for almost half an hour.

A jury at the trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has been listening to closing speeches from the prosecution and the defence.

The trial of a man accused of murder has heard that a man with a “distinct limp” bought a black Honda Civic two weeks before the alleged murder in Belturbet, Co Cavan.

The trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has heard that firearms residue was found on clothes “similar” to clothes the accused man had been wearing the morning of the alleged murder.

A Cavan man accused of murder was wearing clothes on the morning of the alleged murder “similar” to clothes upon which blood staining was subsequently found, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Cavan man accused of murder walked with a limp because of an injury to his left leg, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Cavan man accused of murder was seen leaving the victim’s house with a gun, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Cavan man accused of murder has heard that two men were seen running from the housing estate where the deceased man had lived, minutes after his alleged murder.