A teenager has gone missing from their home in Dublin.

ASH WEDNESDAY was the day when foreheads were marked with ash and the words ‘Memento, homo, quia pulvis es’ were said (or, in English, ‘Remember, man, that thou art dust’). 

I spent Christmas without electricity, as did many other people. We are all likely to be customers of Bord Gais Energy, the newly privatised former arm of Bord Gais.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

A man in his 60s had died after being hit by a car in Co Meath.

Again, tobacco has been hit in the Budget. It’s time to recognise, finally, the ongoing demonisation of tobacco is a conspiracy designed to divert attention from more serious health dangers, principally, the petrol driven motor car.

News that the State-owned Permanent TSB has presided over the eviction of 25 families is disturbing. Back in 2008, government went out on a €400bn limb for bank bondholders. 

The state funeral of Albert Reynolds is continuing in Donnybrook in Dublin, and has heard a moving eulogy from his son Philip.

Wexford manager ready for another three years of hard work in county.

Location: Size: Sq m 185 (2,000 sq ft)

Location: Victoria Avenue

A jury has found a man and woman not guilty of the manslaughter of a student who died on New Year’s Day 2012.

Strong winds have caused an electricity pylon to crash into two homes in Co Down.

A priest who carried secret letters between the IRA and politicians believed dialogue was the most powerful way of resolving conflict, mourners at his funeral Mass were told.

Funeral Mass will be held today for Fr Alec Reid, the peacemaker priest who carried messages between the IRA and politicians during the Troubles.

The US has paid tribute to peacemaker priest Fr Alec Reid.

Gerry Adams has denied that he only went to police nine years after allegations of child abuse emerged against his younger brother to save his political career.

It is to be hoped that Government will emerge from their financial stupor, over the coming days, and make provision for the payment of a Christmas welfare bonus, in December.

Rural bus stops operating in some parts of the country are to be shut from today.

A Limerick taxi driver who raped a young woman after agreeing to driver her home from a nightclub has had his seven year sentence increased following a successful appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A woman has been acquitted of impeding the murder investigation into the death of Rebecca French, whose beaten body was found in the boot of her burning car in Wexford in October 2009.

A woman accused of impeding the inquiry into the murder of Rebecca French has described how the 30-year-old was savagely kicked and beaten to death with golf clubs by four men in a drunken rage.

Three young people have today been charged with the unlawful killing of Andrew Dolan.

A Polish man has today lost an appeal against his 7½-year jail sentence for disposing of the body of Rebecca French, who was beaten to death in Wexford.

A Limerick taxi driver has failed in his appeal against his conviction for raping a young woman he drove home from a nightclub.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the death of a 21-year-old man in Wexford town last month.

WEXFORD in Wexford Park isn’t the fixture Henry Shefflin would have chosen for Kilkenny’s championship bow this summer, but the former hurler of the year has nonetheless welcomed the decision to playSaturday week’s fixture away from Croke Park.

FOUR men have been given the maximum sentence of 10 years for disposing of and attempting to destroy the body of a mother-of-two beaten to death in Wexford last year.

Four men have been given the maximum sentence of 10 years for disposing of and attempting to destroy the body of a mother-of-two beaten to death in Wexford last year.

A JUDGE has adjourned sentencing four men accused of impeding the investigation into a killing due to comments in a highly critical victim impact statement read in court.

Nobody will be prosecuted for murdering Wexford mother-of-two Rebecca French, who was found in the boot of her burning car last year.

The jury in the trial of two Lithuanian men charged with murdering a woman in Wexford last year has been sent home so legal research can take place.

IT MUST be puppy love.

THE trial of two Lithuanian men charged with murdering a 30-year-old woman in Wexford last year has been told that one of them hit her over the head with a golf club while the other stamped on her ribs.

Flats where a west Belfast man was killed are to be demolished, it was revealed today.

SIX bedrooms, 0.6 of an acre of shrubbed gardens, and a guide price of €600,000 – not a bad sequence on offer at the big 2,500 sq ft family bungalow Clonard, on the edge of Kinsale town.

JAMIE COSTIN achieved the qualifying standard for the European championships but there was disappointment for Robert Heffernan and Olive Loughnane who were both disqualified at the Coppa Città di Sesto San Giovanni IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Saturday.

ALMOST 100 taxi drivers have been banned from operating in the industry in the past three years because they are a potential threat to the public, official Garda figures have confirmed.

A LIMERICK taxi driver, jailed for seven years on Monday for raping a teenage customer, was allowed to continue working as a taxi driver by a District Court judge following the rape allegation despite objections by Limerick’s most senior garda officer.

A Limerick taxi driver who raped and sexually assaulted a female passenger two years ago after driving her to an isolated area has been jailed for seven years.