RTÉ’s six Operation Transformation leaders have collectively lost more than 13 stone.

A Youthreach manager spared jail because he admitted to stealing €40,000 is believed to have defrauded his centre of at least five times that amount.

GARDAÍ are bracing themselves for further gang violence after one of the country’s top crime bosses was gunned down.

ACC Bank has secured €6.5 million summary judgment orders against a Co Westmeath couple over unpaid development loans.

A woman in her eighties has died after she was hit by a truck in Clane, Co Kildare.

Two loaded rocket launchers capable of blasting an armoured car were discovered in a lock-up today as detectives closed in on a criminal gang.

THE killing of a child always sends a shiver down the spine but the death of a child at the hands of a parent is seen by many as the worst kind of killing.

Cormac O’Keeffe

A security guard has been hospitalised after he was shot in the leg during a raid on a cash-transit van in Clane, Co Kildare, this morning.

HAVING Bertie Ahern sitting at the counter drinking Bass or having the Taoiseach’s constituency office across the road from his pub, didn’t deter Thomas Kennedy from keeping more than €1 million salted away from the taxman’s greedy grasp.

The wife of a man accused of the murder of their 20-month-old son in an apartment in Clane, Co Kildare two years ago has told his trial that she didn’t want to leave her son alone with him.

Health Minister Micheal Martin has signed an order formally establishing the Office of Tobacco Control, a statutory body which will advise the minister on tobacco control measures.

A post mortem is to be carried out by the State pathologist Dr John Harbison on the body of a 20-month-old baby from Clane, Co Kildare later today.