A chief superintendent has denied he wrote that a whistleblower Garda made up a claim that an alleged heroin dealer, accused of colluding with drug gardaí, was driving around the whistleblower's midlands home.

The worst-hit hospital today is University Hospital Limerick.

A EuroMillions player in Co. Cavan has won more than €270,000 in last night's draw.

Searches were carried out in a joint operation at the weekend involving members of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and the UK’s National Crime Agency.

Chloe Fitzgerald has been located safe and well.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the North.

A man arrested as part of investigations into an attempted ATM theft in Co. Cavan has been released without charge.

The talented 15-year-old footballer who was tragically killed in a fall in Lanzarote last week was affectionately known as 'the Roy Keane of Meath,' mourners heard at his funeral Mass earlier today.

Cormac Canning from Duleek and brothers Mylo and Cormac Newton from Bellewstown were out walking the beach at Laytown last Friday evening when they spotted the mammal who was unable to get back into deep water.

A man has died following a crash between a car and truck in Cork, becoming the sixth victim of the roads in north Cork in the last month.

Gardaí in Co. Meath are investigating an attempted car-jacking.

So that’s Sunday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A teenager who was involved in a road accident yesterday morning in Co. Cork has died in hospital.

A heartless con artist is targeting ill people claiming they owe money for hospital tests.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is examining the purchase of lands and homes by a convicted drug dealer along the border.

Brendan Grace's son-in-law has spoken of the comedian's illness and his willingness to return to the limelight.

Gardaí have said they are satisfied that human remains found in Co. Wicklow yesterday are medical specimens for the purpose of education.

Grace is an Irish showbiz veteran, with a lengthy career over 50 years spanning into music, stand-up comedy and acting.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A syndicate of workers from Mallow in Co. Cork have collected their €500,000 EuroMillions prize.

Hundreds of asylum seekers who have been allowed to stay in Ireland cannot leave Direct Provision due to the housing crisis, according to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC).

A dispute over the breeding of falcons between an Abu Dabhi-based businessman and two people living in Co. Wicklow has come before the High Court.

The father and son killed in a horrific crash in Co. Offaly yesterday have been named locally as 29-year-old Vincent Rossi and his five-year-old son Sully.

A legal challenge by environmentalist Peter Sweetman over the construction of the national grid connection to a wind farm in Co. Wicklow is to be heard in the fastrack Commerical Court.

Conor Kane has been appointed as South East correspondent with RTÉ News.

The AA Hotel of the Year has been announced for 2019.

A lifeboat crew in Co. Cork has rescued a fishing vessel in the middle of Storm Hannah.

Teachers will, in time, have to explain to students why life was once so very different in Ireland on Good Friday. Those teachers, unless we risk Brexit-scale disruption and division, will also tell their pupils why the three Sheehan brothers, from Fermoy in Co. Cork, died fighting with Canadian troops in WWII and, hopefully, explain the structures we put in place after the war to try to ensure that we never have WWIII.

New research suggests that companies may be failing to claim $30bn each year in VAT recovery from travel expenditure.

Asking for It shines an unflinching light on the experience of a young woman whose life is changed forever by a horrific act of violence.

A judge ruled against the State's application to stop the media naming a Christian Brother teacher accused of indecently assaulting children in the 1980s.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Kane McCormack in Co. Meath have released a man in his 40s.

There is much talk around UIster this season about the legends of 1998/99, but Stuart McCloskey is keen for the current Ulster side to write their own piece of winning history.

Given the demands on the modern-day intercounty player, it’s surprising the victorious Limerick panel have time for fomenting violent revolutionary discord, writes Tommy Martin. 

Inishbofin is one of two islands so named in Ireland (not that there are others elsewhere) — the other is a beautiful scimitar of an island just off Magheroarty Beach in Co Donegal which is minute in comparison.

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Your lunchtime headlines.

There was an Irish winner of tonight's EuroMillions jackpot, worth €17m.

Up to 35 dogs a month are being reluctantly surrendered because of the homeless crisis, according to the owner of an animal sanctuary who has described the regular scenes as 'heartbreaking'.

Irish Water has been fined €6,000 for delays in carrying out vitally needed work to improve drinking water and reduce levels of an environmental pollutant linked to cancer.

If you wanted to create a round of golf containing the 18 best holes in Co. Cork, what would be on your list? There are the obvious courses and holes which everyone would include, namely holes from Old Head, Fota Island, and Cork, but what about the less high-profile courses?

An 88-year-old widow in Co. Down scammed out of thousands was left unable to eat or heat her home, her son has said.

The winner of the 54th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) has been announced.

A 23-year-old man from Co. Clare has appeared before a special sitting of Ennis District Court, charged in connection with the assault of another man.