A man claims he was wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned after gardaí wrongly suspected he carried out a savage random street attack on his fiancée.

“There are hurlers everywhere,” Éamonn Kennedy stresses.

Gardaí are renewing their appeal for witnesses to a hit-and-run in Co Carlow in June.

Latest: Gardaí have said that the body of the unidentified man discovered at Cox's Lane in Carlow Town last Tuesday has been now identified.

It may have been a washout summer but business interests in Waterford’s premier beach town, Tramore, are finding that visitors’ willingness to spend is benefiting the town’s tourist trade, writes Sean O’ Riordan

Four young lifelong friends killed in a road accident, and their friend who is seriously injured in hospital, had been planning to spend the night together before the fatal accident in Kildare.

A college that the four Kildare crash victims had attended has said it is "devastated at the loss of four beautiful young girls."

Actors playing distraught relatives helped test emergency services to the limit during the first major Child Rescue Ireland (CRI) alert exercise in the Cork region.

Swollen rivers and today’s rolling storm front have left many inland towns on high flood alert.

A Carlow woman who was molested by her uncle as a child has waived her right to anonymity so “the world can know he is a child abuser”.

Sixteen new Education and Training Boards will be established today to replace the 33 VEC's across the country.

Funeral arrangements for the couple who died in a murder-suicide shooting were being made after their remains were released to their devastated families.

A man remains in garda custody this morning, in connection with a shooting incident in Co Carlow yesterday.

Ken Tucker, 80 years young, last week landed a fine 17.2lb salmon on Kents, at the Blackwater Lodge Fishery.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital today after he was assaulted in Carlow Town overnight.

WATERVILLE Sea Angling Club members faced some harsh elements in their club winter series of shore angling competitions.

CHRISTMAS markets, all the rage throughout Europe for decades, have taken off in a huge way here at home.

Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has made a u-turn on his decision to defer the opening of the €300m extension to the M9 motorway.

Detectives were tonight investigating two separate domestic incidents that left a woman and a man dead.

AN IRISH rapist caught after a manhunt in the US has had his extradition hearing set for the beginning of August.

A RAPIST facing a lengthy prison sentence in Arbour Hill is the subject of major public hunt by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation.

GAA President Sean Kelly has backed Carlow club Tinryland GFC in their dispute with the National Roads Authority (NRA) and Kildare County Council.

Brendan O’Brien

CHRIS NEWTON (Recycling.co.uk) faces the most crucial and difficult stage of the FBD Insurance Ras tomorrow when the survivors head for the Wicklow Mountains, but the talented English cyclist is already poised to lift the George Plant Trophy for a second time.

CARLOW GAA chairman Eddie Byrne has laughed off reports that a local business consortium is prepared to invest €1m over five years to improve the county’s football and hurling fortunes, saying the figure is closer to €100,000.

Gardaí in Carlow are looking for the public's help in locating a missing 16-year-old girl.

FEARS are growing for the future of 550 jobs at a manufacturing plant after the entire workforce was yesterday put on protective notice.

GARDAÍ yesterday made one of the biggest drug hauls in the South-East in recent years when they seized cannabis with a street value of €1.7m.

The South Eastern Health board is coming under mounting criticism, as a second patient under the care of the board was discovered wandering the streets unattended.

A Government-appointed mediator will today attempt to resolve a dispute over beet price between the Irish Farmers Association and Irish Sugar today.