Leo Varadkar has begun a live Facebook post addressing the nation on issues such as housing and healthcare.

Government is pressing ahead with construction of an €80m Garda headquarters. It is part of an ambitious, nationwide plan to build and refurbish Garda stations.

Householders will still be able to dispose of their recycling waste free of charge at local authority sites when the new pay- by-weight charges come into effect on July 1 because councils do not have the technology to weigh it.

A severely disabled 12-year-old boy, whose twin brother died in the womb, is to receive an interim settlement of €2.75m for the injuries he suffered at birth.

Name: Aoife Walsh

The High Court has clarified the powers a Nama-appointed receiver has in regards to the assets of two commercial properties.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has refused to confirm or deny reports that he told a private meeting of the Labour Party that Health Minister James Reilly is not up to the job.

A High Court action is being brought against the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) after a receiver was appointed over lands in Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

The HSE has decided to postpone the closure of an acute psychiatric unit, which was due to shut its doors on Mar 31 and stop admitting patients today.

A leading supermarket chain has responded to cash-conscious shoppers with the launch of its new own-brand range it claims can slash €45.26 off the bill for a basket of groceries normally costing €110.35.

An Irish couple who were on board the stricken cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast have described the terror that unfolded as the liner keeled over.

DAWN Foods employee Aidan Duff-White has scooped a rare City & Guilds Highly Commended Certificate in recognition of his exceptional work, presented at a global awards ceremony in Dublin.

A SCHOOL ordered to offer a place to a Traveller child after it was found to have indirectly discriminated against him is to appeal the finding in the Circuit Court.

THERE has been a sharp rise in recent years in the cases of assault and obstructing gardaí and of resisting arrest.

A YOUNG nursing student was left with a severe brain injury after his car was struck head-on by another car driven on the wrong side of the road by a young man who was racing in convoy and playing a game of “catch up” with another vehicle, the High Court heard yesterday.

A woman has died in a house fire in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. The victim is believed to have been in her 40s or 50s.

PHARMACISTS like Ronan Quirke, who has a business in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, are baffled about the sway the internet holds over people.

The Labour Relations Commission has intervened in a bid to solve an industrial dispute at a psychiatric hospital, it emerged tonight.

Gardaí in Clonmel, Co Tipperary have renewed their appeals for information in relation to a road traffic accident that killed a 21-year-old man in the early hours of yesterday morning.

In the 1970s and ’80s, Irish people were fleeing this country in their droves to seek a better standard of living abroad.

A Co Tipperary man on trial for the murder of one of his friends following a row over a battered sausage armed himself with two knives and told his girlfriend "there will be damage done tonight", a murder trial jury heard today.

Gardai in Clonmel, Co Tipperary are seeking assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a man in his forties who has been missing since last Tuesday.

Family of 14-year-old prays for a miracle