A Mayo law firm representing more than 300 claimants has become the first in Europe to have a case relating to the Volkswagen emissions scandal heard in court.

The Food Safety Authority said there was no justification for businesses to be in breach of the food safety legislation, after 11 enforcement orders were served last month on hotels, restaurants, takeaway and wholesale providers.

The son of an elderly man, who waited three-and-a-half hours for an ambulance after his lungs collapsed, has said medical services in the area demonstrate the risk of “death by geography”.

Ahead of an upcoming comedy fundraiser the Moone Boy mum gets serious and talks stand-up, Sonia and solitary Middle East men with Richard Fitzpatrick.

Renowned songsmith John Spillane will be featured in his six-part TG4 series singing at the grave of legendary blind bard Turlough O’Carolan.

An elderly couple had a miraculous escape when their car crashed through a bridge and plummeted into a river.

The Irish drugs mule who died in Venezuela was on the run from gardaí and the courts here.

MILK will run south. More than 25% of milk production is in Co Cork, and auctioneer Eamonn O’Brien, of CCM, says the dairy industry will only strengthen in Munster on the back of milk quota from other regions.

Actor Chris O'Dowd has announced his engagement to TV presenter Dawn Porter.

ONE of Cork city’s best known restaurants has been served with a closure order on health and safety grounds.

Six closure orders have been served on food business by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, for breaches of food safety legislation.

A 33-YEAR-OLD man charged with arson at a house where a five-year- old girl died earlier this month said he was “deeply sorry”, a court heard yesterday.

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A 33-YEAR-OLD man charged with the assault of a woman in Boyle, Co Roscommon, has been remanded in custody after appearing before Ballinasloe District Court yesterday.

A 33-year-old man has been charged in connection with an arson attack in which a five-year-old girl died.

THE tiny white coffin was decorated with Dora the Explorer stickers, but everyone attending five-year-old Mari Connolly’s funeral yesterday would have known her favourite colour was pink.

A man in his 30s has been arrested today in connection with a suspected arson attack which killed a five-year-old girl.

TERESA KEANE, the mother of five-year-old Marie Keane-Connolly, was unable to hold back the tears when she knelt and placed flowers at the scene where her daughter had died in a fire just hours before.

Gardaí are investigating after a five-year-old girl was killed in a house fire overnight in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

“IF you don’t remember anything about today, try and remember my son’s picture. Nobody is smiling in it,” a road traffic victim told a conference on the Human Impact of Road Collisions yesterday.

You know that juggler’s trick where they yank a table-cloth out from under the crockery, glasses and cutlery so suddenly that the table stays set, with every glass, plate and fork in the same position on the now-bare table?

A FOOD company plans to send fish caught off the Irish coast to England for processing and then bring its Donegal Catch all the way back again to sell in Ireland — making a round trip of 550 miles.

CALLING all anglers - cast your eyes and rods towards Lough Arrow in Co Sligo, where a unique period lakeside residence is up for sale. Lecarrow Lodge is a pure confection, a veritable gingerbread house on 30 acres.

HIGH winds, driving rain and thick fog on Carrantouhill have dashed the record bid to conquer the five highest mountains in Ireland and Britain.

A TEAM of mountains climbers were last night scaling Carrantuohill in the final leg of their bid to conquer the five highest peaks in Ireland and Britain inside 24 hours.

Fine Gael leader Michael Noonan has been hit in the face with a custard pie while canvassing in Boyle, Co Roscommon.