Gardaí have seized around €80,000 worth of drugs in Co. Sligo.

No one knows a city like a local. So who better to give the lowdown on Galway than Síle Seoige. She describes her perfect day in the county to Ciara McDonnell.

A post mortem is due to take place later today on the body of a toddler who died in Galway yesterday.

Irish Water has been given 11 weeks to decide how it will plead to failing to implement a plan to improve drinking water quality in Carraroe in Co Galway.

Accused submerged body in pit at Cliffs of Moher, court hears

Water supplies serving more than 800,000 people are at risk of contamination and in need of urgent investment, the Environmental Protection Agency has warned.

Boil water notices issued in certain areas could increase the risk from the potentially carcinogenic chemicals, according to Friends of the Irish Environment (FOIE).

A former teacher and convicted sex offender has been jailed for another three years for sexually abusing three pupils.

Shane Filan’s home in Sligo, built for €3m and reported to have been once valued at €10m, has sold for over €800,000.

A man in his 40's remains in Garda custody in Galway this morning in connection with the death of Adrian Folan, whose body was found yesterday in a quarry near the Cliffs of Moher.

Gardaí believe that a computer programmer, whose body was discovered yesterday, was murdered several days ago and dumped under a load of rocks in a quarry.

In a video filmed last year in the Gaeltacht , some American and Canadian students show off their Irish language skills. And they're pretty good at it.

Waves up to 10m high, driven by winds approaching hurricane strength, were bearing down on south and west coastal areas overnight, threatening to compound the devastation of recent days.

Angry locals have demanded that Galway County Council act immediately to provide a footpath and public lighting at the spot where a teenage girl lost her life.

Bankrupt singer Shane Filan’s Sligo mansion is now officially for sale at €990,000 — well below the €3m friends said it cost him to build.

A TOTAL of 49 Irish athletes will travel to the Paralympic Games in London later this summer.

Nostalgia is a great thing.

The Galway West tally is 58% yes in favour of the Fiscal Treaty referendum, and 42% no.

GARDAÍ were last night waiting the results of a postmortem examination in an effort to establish how a man died.

LOVE at first sight is still a very real thing for hundreds of people who hooked up with the first person the Knock Marriage Bureau introduced them to.

THE summer holidays bring memories of céilís at teen romances and Irish colleges in the Gaeltacht for thousands of adults.

TWENTY American citizens have been awarded Irish government grants to learn Irish over the summer, among them a former FBI agent, a retired lawyer and a faculty member of the Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas.

Two men caught transporting €3.3m worth of heroin have succeeded in having their 10-year sentences reduced by two years on appeal.

A YOUNG Dublin mother has been jailed for three years for her role in possessing €1.37 million of heroin found in her car.

A FRESH effort will be made this morning to refloat a gigantic cargo ship which ran aground in a storm off the Connemara coast yesterday morning.

A spillage of home-heating oil has sparked a public health alert in Co Galway.

A teenager who became involved in a multi million-euro heroin operation after deciding to “go for a spin” in his cousin’s car has received a six-year sentence, with three years suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Three men who acted as “mules” for €3.3m worth of heroin have been jailed for 10 years each at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

Four men who pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to acting as couriers in a multi-million euro heroin operation are to be sentenced in May.

A man in his 50s has drowned in Co. Galway.

AN ASSISTANT Garda commissioner is to be appointed to head policing in the southern region as part of a reshuffle of senior garda personnel.

Five people arrested on Friday night in the Ballyfermot and Clondalkin areas of Dublin as part of a Garda operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs appeared in court today

THE parents of a baby girl born dead at Sligo General Hospital as a result of alleged delay in delivering her have secured €100,000 for nervous shock in settlement of their High Court action.

A man in his late sixties has been killed in a hit and run in Co Galway.

Two pedestrians have been killed in separate road crashes in Galway and Tyrone.

A YOUNG man and woman who died in a Co Offaly car crash on Saturday morning were among four people to lose their lives in weekend road accidents.

A middle-aged woman was killed and two other people have been injured in a car accident.

Power has been restored to two and a half thousand ESB customers in Connemara who had been left without electricity after lightening strike at a power station.

TWO-thirds of primary schools opening their doors for the first time in September will offer multidenominational education in a reflection of growing demand for schools not run by the churches.

A BABYSITTER and three young children had a lucky escape when lightning struck the roof of their house and set it on fire.