Breffney O'Dowling Keane of Cosmetic Creations reflects upon the launch of the company's new Airmedica hand sanitiser brand

Yves Rocher, the French skincare company, ceased operations in Cork last year, transferring production to Brittany, with the loss of 60 jobs.

Irish cosmetic manufacturer has announced 90 new jobs in total in Cork and Mayo.

More than 50 incidents on Irish railways including nine fatalities were examined by inspectors from the Railway Accident Investigation Unit (RAIU) last year.

In late July and on through August, on the biggest days of the GAA calendar — when all other space is filled — the Nally Terrace will be home to the GAA supporters who are unable to get tickets for anywhere else in Croke Park.

Sean Finnegan faces a daunting test in his first final as a Ladies Football manager, but he says his Westmeath side are not getting bogged down by the prospect of five straight losses to Dublin in the TG4 Leinster SFC decider.

Livestock farmers countrywide will discuss the €100 million Brexit beef fund at a series of eight regional meetings starting Tuesday.

Everyone who was there has their own special memories of the two-part series that was the 1989 Connacht football final between Mayo and Roscommon.

UCC are through to play St Mary’s University College, Belfast in the Sigerson Cup final in Parnell Park next Wednesday.

The conservation charity An Taisce has published a list of Ireland's ten most at-risk buildings.

The owner of an Irish pub in Poland has been hailed a hero by two young inter-railers who were left penniless and stranded when their bank cards were skimmed in Krakow.

Parents are about to be surveyed about demand for alternatives to faith-specific primary schools but the local Catholic bishop will have final say on which other patron a building can transfer to.

It follows three different stories of struggle and triumph, both past and present: the female freedom fighters, the suffragettes and a victim of domestic violence.

A 74-year-old painter bludgeoned his wife to death with a two-foot metal bar and inflicted a serious head injury on his son before causing his own death by drinking weed-killer, an inquest has heard.

A 21-year-old man discovered injured outside a house in Co Mayo last August died of blunt force trauma to the head.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland has 55 roads projects in 23 counties but securing funding for them is just part of the process in ensuring the proposals move from the planning stage to work beginning on the ground, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

The M17 M18 Gort to Tuam motorway was unveiled to the public today two months ahead of schedule and on budget.

Latest: Gas supply has been fully restored to customers in Galway and Mayo.

Gas supplies in the west of Ireland should be switched back on a phased basis over the weekend, energy chiefs have said.

Latest: Odourless gas which entered the network in the west of Ireland is being sucked back out of the pipes and burnt off, it has been revealed.

Thousands of natural gas customers in Connacht have been told to shut off their gas supplies becasue odourless gas has got into the network from the Corrib Gas terminal.

A woman in her 60s has died following a collision involving her bicycle and a tractor yesterday afternoon in Co Cork.

A woman in her 60s has died following a collision involving her bicycle and a tractor yesterday afternoon in Co Cork.

A Mayo community has been gripped by shock and sorrow as it struggles to come to terms with the loss of three members of a much-loved family in Monday’s horror road crash.

A Mayo community has been gripped by shock and sorrow as it struggles to come to terms with the loss of three members of a much-loved family in Monday’s horror road crash.

ONE of the most challenging aspects of trying to embed a culture of safe driving in everyone who uses our roads is that the campaign is by necessity relentless. 

Five people, including a seven-year-old-boy, have been killed in two separate crashes in Co Cork and Co Mayo.

A suspected murder investigation is continuing in Mayo after a 21-year-old died over the weekend.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a man in Co. Mayo on Saturday.

Long-time a maker of furniture for pubs, Monaghan Bros won a contract at Yale, writes Trish Dromey

A man in his 60s has died after a fatal road traffic accident in County Mayo today.

An investigation has been launched into an alleged assault on two Gardaí in Mayo overnight.

Children of gardaí have been approached on a football pitch and told their father is a “scumbag” for policing a protest after being identified via social media, a Garda conference has heard.

Funeral mass for Tom and Kitty Fitzgerald who were found dead in their Mayo home will take place this afternoon.

The bodies of a man and a woman have been discovered at a house near Claremorris in County Mayo.

Around 30,000 Mayo fans are expected to be inside Croke Park when Sunday’s All- Ireland SFC final gets underway. Thousands more will be watching and listening around the world, hoping and praying the Westerners beat Dublin and end Mayo’s 65 year wait for fame and glory.

A Co Mayo teacher, who broke the world record for the longest barefoot walk, has set his sights on an even more gruelling challenge — walking across the US shoeless.

Everything from rail services, to agriculture, turf-cutting, to hospitals and fights over ministerial positions all caused major wobbles among Independents which almost scuppered a government deal.

A patient with metastatic cancer told a doctor he would rather “drown myself in the river” than return for treatment to a cancer centre of excellence where he would face emergency department delays and the likelihood of days on a trolley.