POLICING the booming heroin trade is likely to become more difficult across Europe, a top UN report has warned.

THE ‘big freeze’ last winter cost Dublin City Council €500,000 in overtime, water tankers and repairs, it has emerged.

TWO people were killed and at least 16 taken to hospital last night following a road crash in Co Kildare.

A GALWAY County Councillor is among 33 traders named and shamed for breaching consumer laws in a list published by the National Consumer Agency (NCA) yesterday.

EX-SOCCER star and Sunderland FC chairman-in-waiting Niall Quinn helped raise €100,000 for homeless people at the weekend when he participated in a charity triathlon in Co Kildare.