A man in remission from a rare form of cancer is among the thousands of people affected by the water outage in Louth and Meath.

The lack of supervision of rank-and-file gardaí by sergeants — revealed in a police watchdog report — has worsened in the last year, the staff association for middle-ranking officers has said.

A RECORD breaking monkfish with an enormous fanged-mouth big enough to swallow a person is to be stuffed — not for dinner, but for display.

An Irish-built replica Viking ship arrives in Dublin today under the power of 64 oarsmen at the end of a two month voyage from Denmark.

A reconstruction of a 900-year-old Irish-built Viking ship, which set sail from Denmark seven weeks ago, arrived in Ireland today.