A judge has discharged the jury in the second retrial of a Cavan child-minder accused of causing serious harm to a baby because of a legal issue.

A security analyst believes the Defence Forces will find it difficult to manage and police a ‘hard’ border post-Brexit.

The Vodafone is giving high speed broadband to 15 rural towns in Ireland to help grow business.

There has been an outpouring of support for Clodagh Hawe, 39, who was killed by her husband, Alan Hawe, 40, in the Cavan murder-suicide last Monday.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

A legal challenge has been mounted against a decision by An Bord Pleanála that a high-voltage underground cable connecting a €21m windfarm in Cavan to the national gird is an exempted development.

A credit union has obtained a High Court order preventing an extension of a solicitor’s insolvency protection period from applying to it in its efforts to recover a €203,000 debt from him.

Fact 1: The Atlantic has the biggest impact on our climate. Met Eireann recently published a paper which stated that the changing temperature of the Atlantic, known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) explains over 90% of the variation in Ireland’s land temperatures and rainfall.

A child-minder is to go on trial for a second time next May accused of causing serious harm to a ten-month-old baby.

The jury will begin deliberating today in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a 10-month-old baby. Registered child-minder Sandra Higgins, aged 34, is alleged to have caused the injuries to the baby girl she was minding at her home.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson yesterday refused to consent to being fingerprinted or photographed in Garda custody after being arrested during a water meter protest.

Kilkenny City has been named Ireland's cleanest town by Irish Business Against Litter.

THE skies around Dublin city centre and Cavan Town will have some unusual visitors today.

Sixteen new Education and Training Boards will be established today to replace the 33 VEC's across the country.

Gardaí are appealing for the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of a missing 17-year-old girl.

Motorists are being advised to be cautious on the roads this morning after freezing conditions overnight.

A man who was stabbed to death in Cavan on Saturday night was singled out by two men who forced their way into his apartment block.

Sean Quinn remains a hero in the border counties.

Chairman of the Ambulance Association of Ireland is calling for better safety measures for its workers following the death of a paramedic in Cavan yesterday.

FOR nine students who received their Junior Certificate results yesterday there were 12 reasons to celebrate – top marks in every subject.

THE decentralisation of thousands of public jobs from Dublin to around the country is being postponed until 2011, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced.

The decentralisation of thousands of public jobs from Dublin to around the country is being postponed until 2011, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced today.

A man was arrested today over the alleged IRA-linked killing of a trucker in an isolated shed in the Irish Republic.

A Cavan man who was convicted of intimidating his former flatmate arising out of a stabbing incident following the 2004 All-Ireland Football Final between Mayo and Kerry has been given a four year sentence.

A Cavan man who was convicted by a jury of intimidating his former flatmate arising out of a stabbing incident following the 2004 All-Ireland Football Final between Mayo and Kerry will be sentenced in April.

Two detective gardaí accused of forging notes of interview and of committing perjury during the trial of a man suspected of involvement in the Omagh bombing have been found not guilty by direction of the trial judge.

The trial of two detective gardaí accused of perjury during the 2001 trial of a suspect in the Omagh bombing has continued in legal argument at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two detectives lied under oath while giving evidence at the trial of a man accused of being involved in the Omagh bombings, a court heard today.

The trial of two detective gardaí accused of perjury in relation to evidence they gave during the trial of a man accused of involvement in the Omagh bombing is expected to begin tomorrow at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

BRAZIL’S ambassador to Ireland yesterday claimed the Government and gardaí were aware of a plan to repatriate a Brazilian prior to his appearance at the inquest of a 14-year-old Irish girl he had raped.

NURSES yesterday broadened their campaign for action on overcrowding in hospital accident and emergency wards

Gardaí are questioning a man over the suspicious death of a woman in Co Cavan.

Gardaí in Cavan are investigating the death of a man who drowned today in a lake.

Five construction workers have been taken to hospital after a roof collapsed at a building-site in the centre of Cavan town.