A major cannabis seizure in Leitrim has ended with an arrest.

Glencar/Manor easily defeated Annaduff in Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday by a 1-11 to 0-3 margin.

Leitrim head into their Connacht SFC quarter-final against New York at Gaelic Park on Sunday (throw-in 3pm local time/8pm Irish time) with a fully fit squad to choose from.

A suspect allegedly linked to the murder of a prison officer in Northern Ireland attempted to get a battery for the car used to attack him, a court heard today.

A man has appeared in court accused of obtaining a car which was later used in the killing of a prison officer in the North.

Hugh crowds attended the latest Charolais Christmas Cracker show/sale, hosted by the Irish Charolais Cattle Society in Carrick on Suir, Co Tipperary, last weekend.

A teenager is to be sentenced today for killing the pensioner he claimed sexually abused him when he was younger.

A Cavan pensioner found unconscious in his home after an assault was hospitalised with bleeding to his rectum, a scrotal tear and significant bruising to his penis, a murder trial has heard.

A Leitrim teenager charged with murdering a 73-year-old man told investigating Gardaí the pensioner had sexually abused him when he was younger, a court heard today.

A GENERAL labourer charged with murdering a pensioner in a psychiatric hospital told detectives he killed him, a court heard.

A general labourer charged with murdering a pensioner in a psychiatric hospital told detectives he killed him.

A Lithuanian is alleged to have broken into a house in his home country in 2001 and to have stabbed a woman in the hand, the High Court heard today.

The funeral of a pensioner who died following a vicious attack in Co Cavan two months ago will take place this weekend.

A PENSIONER who died after an attack in his home was described yesterday as a gentle-natured man.

The roll out of broadband in the North West is facing bad reception in the area.

Bus Éireann tonight announced the latest stage of its massive cost-cutting drive with the axing of one service and the curtailment of 18 others.

An Air Corps flight which crashed killing a trainee pilot and instructor struck a mountainside about 200ft below standard flying levels, it emerged today.

Gardaí have arrested three men and seized four transit vans following a burglary at a business premises in Co Leitrim early this morning.

A 30-year-old man from South Africa died today after he was struck with 20,000 volts of electricity while working on a new house in Co Leitrim.

Connacht Rugby have officially luanched their new academy with the contracting of six players to the elite player development programme where it is hoped over the next three years they will develop into full time professionals with Connacht Rugby.