The Department of Health has come under pressure after it emerged the former CEO of Console was brought in for questioning five years ago regarding his stint posing as a fake doctor in the early 1980s.

Dick Clerkin is leaning back against the front wall of Monaghan’s impressive training base at Cloghan, just outside Castleblayney.

Cork's Senior Ladies Footballers arrived back on Leeside tonight, shortly after 8.30pm with the Brendan Martin Cup en tow, after picking up an eighth All-Ireland title in nine years at Croke Park yesterday.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a garda who required stitches following a search in Co Offaly last month.

Temperatures are set to soar in early July and mid-August – according to Donegal postman-come-weatherman Michael Gallagher anyway.

Funeral arrangements for the couple who died in a murder-suicide shooting were being made after their remains were released to their devastated families.

Gardaí in Co. Offaly are appealing for witnesses after a woman died yesterday afternoon when the car in which she was travelling entered the Royal Canal.

A cold-case trial has heard that a woman accused of murdering her husband in 1987 claimed to have rowed with him a year later.

A man has died in hospital following a road crash in Co Westmeath this morning.

GAA president Christy Cooney has asked hurling and football inter-county managers to reserve their judgements on the latest batch of experimental rules.

A spectator has been killed at an Irish rally event today, race organisers have said.

A man is in a critical condition following a two-vehicle collision in Co Offaly.

FARMERS, company directors and publicans are the biggest tax dodgers in the country, according to the latest list of defaulters published by the Revenue Commissioners.

Two people have died in separate road accidents overnight.

Tommy Barker mans the battlements of a castle fit for a king.

The Motorsport Commission is to meet today to discuss the accident at the Donegal Rally on Friday in which two 22-year-old race marshals were killed and three other men were injured.

Two marshals died and three men were injured when a rally car crashed into a crowd of spectators in north-west Ireland today.

Tragedy marred the opening day of the Shell Donegal International Rally when a competing car went off the road on the second stage near Ballybofey.

Two men died and a third was injured when a rally car crashed into a crowd of spectators in Donegal today.