A MOVE by Limerick County Council to stop those travelling to the University of Limerick from parking in an adjacent private housing estate has been deferred following objections by local landlords.

A promotions firm once headed by legendary showband singer Joe Dolan has been slapped with a €3.8m bill for unpaid tax, it emerged today.

WHITECHURCH is booming. The former sleepy village, a mere 10-minute drive from Blackpool, is now a fully-fledged dormitory town for Cork city.

A "functioning alcoholic and drug user" who boasted in a pub that he had a semiautomatic pistol has been given a 15-years prison sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell who described him as "a danger to society"

Belfast fell silent today to remember the victims of the suicide bomb attacks on London.

Police have said the security alerts on the bus in central Belfast and at Belfast International Airport had been declared hoaxes.

Belfast was hit by a wave of bomb alerts today which caused major disruption in the city centre.