Gardaí are renewing their appeal over the murder of Andrew Burns in Donegal.

Simply Red star Mick Hucknall has backed opposition by locals to plans for Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm in Donegal.

Young drivers are playing high-speed car computer games and then thinking they can out-speed gardaí, a judge has warned.

A student managed to bypass a world-class till security system and steal thousands of euro from an animal hospital.

The reasons behind last year’s seven missed drugs tests in inter-county Gaelic games should be considered nothing more than logistical, says GPA head of communications Sean Potts.

The HSE has been given 24 hours to explain why it took a medical card from a man with serious psychological issues and charged with the arson of his mother’s home.

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A man in his 20s was killed in a car accident in the north-west on Christmas Day as he drove home having visited his girlfriend.

The heartbroken mother of tragic Shannon Gallagher last night said her daughters were the lights of her life as she tried to come to terms with the death of a second daughter in just six weeks.

THOUSANDS of people turned up at a series of protests across Co Donegal yesterday to voice their opposition to the latest tax hikes and health cuts.

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin has reserved judgment on legal issues in the trial of a Northern Ireland man accused of murdering another man close to the border over three years ago.

State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy has told a murder trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that Strabane man Andrew Burns died from a gunshot wound to his back which caused massive loss of blood.

WHEN Brian Cowen was elected Taoiseach, he set out his vision for the country in a passionate speech exploring Irish identity, the progress the country had made, and the quest to keep improving. A little over two and a half years later, the economy had collapsed, the IMF had arrived to clean up the mess and Mr Cowen gave another speech — one very different in tone and substance. In years to come, these two speeches may come to be seen as natural bookends to his prematurely ended leadership. Political Correspondent Paul O’Brien reports

A Co Tyrone man appeared before Dublin’s Special Criminal Court today charged with murdering a man in Donegal two years ago.

A man who was shot dead just yards from a church in Ireland three months ago was the first victim of the hard-line republican group Oglaigh na hEireann, it was revealed today.

A 23-year-old man has died after being seriously injured during a fight in Co Donegal on Saturday night. The man, from Castlefin, was set upon by a gang of youths after a disco in Letterkenny.

Four of the eight people killed on the roads this weekend have been named.

Five people have been killed in three separate road accidents overnight.

A 32-year man is in a critical condition at Letterkenny General Hospital following an overnight attack in Co Donegal.

Two people have died in a road traffic accident at Castlefin near Lifford in Co Donegal.