Coughlan’s bar and music venue has been awarded Irish Music Venue of the Year at IMRO’s national music venue awards.

RTÉ has followed the lead of hit US reality show Toddlers & Tiaras by filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary on the explosive build-up to last weekend’s controversial child pageant.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney will brief a parliamentary committee on the horse meat controversy today after a second processing plant tested positive for equine DNA.

An application to restrict media coverage concerning Dermot Laide in the run up to his manslaughter trial next April 24 has been made by the Director of Public Prosecutions.