A remarkable performance and late equaliser from Tipperary’s Aishling Moloney earned Shane Ronayne’s side a point as TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin were unable to get their Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 campaign off to a winning start in Ballyboden.

Actor Chirs O'Dowd has offered up his driving skills to support a new pilot initiative.

In sport, they say, fairytales don’t happen but Dublin’s newly-crowned All-Ireland Senior Softball Singles champion Eoin Kennedy might disagree.

We were on our way to Ennistymon to eat at Little Fox, a newly opened, super cool café on a corner of Main Street.

Here’s the future: The GAA will put more of its highest-profile inter-county championship matches behind a paywall this summer.

Brendan Gleeson tells Esther McCarthy about the fun he had working on ‘Paddington 2’, and his mixed feelings about Cork GAA.

Cork's Sean Powter and Niall Grimley of Armagh have been confirmed as the final two tourists for the upcoming International Rules series.

Around 2,000 customers are without power following lightning strikes.

A man who killed his girlfriend in Sligo while having delusions they were in an alternative reality has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital.

Big weekend for the Murtagh household. Well, bigger weekend than usual.

A number of TD's have been venting their anger at the latest constituency changes.

Des O’Sullivan gets closer to nature on the spectacular treetop walkway.

Tipperary clubs have been told the GAA may introduce a loyalty tickets scheme for the organisation’s members.

The lights are up, the cameras are ready, and the action is waiting to burst onto the streets.

For the first time in five years, thousands of householders in Co Roscommon can now safely consume their own tap water.

Roscommon native Jennifer Hough looks at why her home county was the only one with a no majority in the marriage referendum — and the implications of this

The State has agreed a contract for the development of Ireland’s first healthcare public private partnership (PPP) project. The €140m scheme, part of the Government’s €2.25bn Infrastructure Stimulus Progamme, will provide a network of primary care facilities.

The Government has opened up 14 of its primary care centres to private investors with help from a €70m cheap loan from the European Investment Bank.

A total of 15 eateries — including four restaurants on the same Dublin street —were forced to close last month for breaching food safety regulations.

Fifteen closure orders were served on food businesses in October for breaches of food safety legislation.

Up to 150,000 people are out on streets up and down the country in protest against water charges.

Anti-water charges campaigners predict more than 100,000 protesters will be on the streets at 70 demonstrations around the country this Saturday.

Boyle celebrates Chris O’Dowd.

Details of a €10m investment package to develop greenways and cycling routes across the country has been announced.

Hollywood star Chris O’Dowd has revealed how he regularly ended up going to school with make-up his older sisters had carefully applied while he was asleep.

A man has died after a car crashed into a lake this morning.

A “completely unacceptable” attempt by Health Minister James Reilly to access detailed files on potential primary care sites has been described as a “misunderstanding” by high-ranking officials.

A serial conman who once telephoned RTÉ’s Liveline to talk about his crimes has lost an appeal against a four-year jail term for theft and other offences.

A serial conman who once telephoned the RTE 'Liveline' show to talk about his crimes has failed in an appeal against his four-year sentence for theft and other offences.

Moone Boy returned to the town of Boyle in Roscommon yesterday as hometown hero Chris O’Dowd began filming the third series of his sitcom.

Accumulated profits at Co Roscommon actor Chris O’Dowd’s UK production firm last year increased more than seven-fold to £76,705 (€89,295).

No one should be fooled by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s U-turn on his own highly unpopular and utterly inappropriate proposal to cut resource teaching hours for children with special needs by a further 12%.

A junior minister who described the last government’s cuts to special needs supports in schools as immoral has defended his own Government for doing the same.

Parents of children with special needs hope to bring towns and cities to a standstill amid growing anger over cuts to extra teaching that Education Minister Ruairi Quinn denies will take place.

The driving ability of a 28-year-old mother, who was involved in an accident which claimed a woman’s life, was severely impaired by alcohol from the night before.

Ireland’s hottest actor Chris O’Dowd has cred-ited his broad Midlands accent with turning him into box office gold.

Ireland’s hottest actor Chris O’Dowd showed he has the Midas touch yesterday as his semi-autobiographical sitcom Moone Boy received a string of nominations at the British Comedy Awards.

THE large-scale closure of small rural Garda stations is expected to be recommended in a new policing plan currently being prepared by the Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan.

Actor Chris O’Dowd has told how he turned to comedy to spice up his love life.

Thanks to his hit TV show, Chris O’Dowd has put Boyle, Co Roscommon, on the map. The comedian’s father Seán gives Conor Power the tour of the town.

Many of the reasons put forward to vote no have been worrying at best and downright terrifying at worst, says Ashley Balbirnie