Ireland has the highest percentage of beaches and lakes with poor quality bathing water in the EU after Estonia, according to a report in the lead-up to the holiday season.

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A man has died in a diving tragedy in county Galway.

PASHTUNABAD — a poor, wind and flyblown suburb of Quetta — is the type of Pakistani town where commanders in the Afghan Taliban lived after being kicked out of their country in 2001.

Spacious suburban home will benefit from new flyovers, ensuring end of traffic bottlenecks, says Tommy Barker

JOHN Stout doesn’t see himself as a hero but if courage, determination, and fortitude are the right ingredients then he is one of Ireland’s finest.

Murderer Vincent Tabak kept images of children being sexually abused on his laptop computer, police in Britain have discovered.

Vincent Tabak has today been found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of murdering Joanna Yeates.

VINCENT TABAK claims it was “pure chance” that he strangled Joanna Yeates, a court has heard.

VINCENT TABAK claims that he strangled Joanna Yeates for 20 seconds after she screamed when he put his arm around her, a British court heard yesterday.

VINCENT TABAK was drinking champagne the night after killing Joanna Yeates, a court has heard.

A KILLER neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then went shopping in Asda with her body in the boot of his car, a court heard yesterday.

MORE than you’d expect — that’s what’s on offer with this five-bed home at 5, Clifton, in Wilton’s Elm Park, Cork city.

A 32-year-old man will appear in court in the UK tomorrow charged with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates.

The mother of Joanna Yeates has offered to take part in a TV reconstruction of her daughter’s last-known movements.

Detectives were following up several new leads in the hunt for Joanna Yeates’s killer today after retracing her last-known steps.

One of British murder victim Joanna Yeates’s socks was missing when her body was discovered and has still not been found, police confirmed today.

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates launched a campaign on Facebook yesterday to appeal for witnesses.

Police in Britain investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates have found no evidence she was sexually assaulted as they suggested more than one person may be responsible.

POLICE hunting the killer of landscape architect Joanna Yeates in Britain yesterday appealed for information about a 4x4 vehicle seen near where her body was found.

Police in Bristol are warning women not to walk home alone after dark because landscape architect Joanna Yeates’s killer remains at large.

The family of murdered Joanna Yeates today expressed their grief over her death and said they were certain her killer would be brought to justice.

The landlord of murdered Joanna Yeates remained in custody this morning after British police were granted more time to question him about her death.

Detectives in Britain were tonight granted more time to continue questioning Joanna Yeates’s landlord on suspicion of her murder.

The killer who strangled landscape architect Joanna Yeates and dumped her body by a roadside was being hunted by police in Britain today.

POLICE in Britain have said they are “satisfied” a body found on a country lane on Christmas Day is missing architect Joanna Yeates.

The parents of a young woman missing for nearly a week believe she has been kidnapped.

Ireland's Danielle McVeigh claimed the biggest win of her career with a one-stroke victory in the Ladies' British Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship at Royal Aberdeen.

Liverpool will come to a standstill today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

A TALL and tasty slice of old Youghal comes in the attractive shape of No 6, Clifton, a Victorian house that has watched the harbour town’s comings and goings for a century and a half.

YOU quote Michael McDowell (Irish Examiner, April 5) accusing Enda Kenny in the Dáil of having a “bad hair day”.

TOP Gear presenter Richard Hammond was discharged from Leeds General Infirmary yesterday with his consultant neurosurgeon optimistic he would make a full recovery and be “back to his old self” within six months.

A Cork girl found strangled in an apartment in Galway last week was today remembered as a warm and caring person at what would have been her graduation ceremony.

FOR the third time in a month, the men of 1916 were honoured recently.

Muslims across the US are denouncing the bombing of London’s transport system and bracing themselves for a renewed wave of harassment that has continued since the September 11 attacks.

MUCH has been made of the excellent findings of the two Morris reports.

Attackers on a motorbike set off a series of explosions early today at 18 Shell petrol stations in Pakistan’s troubled southern city of Karachi.

A search is continuing this afternoon for a fisherman lost overboard from a lobster boat yesterday afternoon off the Galway coast.

A search will resume at first light for a fisherman lost overboard from a lobster boat yesterday afternoon off the Galway coast.