The Government has vowed to pursue religious orders for half the €1.46bn cost of compensating their victims.

The grieving father of the youngest victim of the Tit Bonhomme sinking told mourners at his son’s requiem Mass he hoped the sea would give up the bodies of the two remaining missing crewmen.

WHAT’S a rebel without a cause.

THEY are called the new houses in Rosscarbery, Co Cork, but this terrace on Convent Road is more than 50 years old. Time moves slow in the west Cork village.

The Orange Order today called for an end to tit-for-tat attacks in the North after two GAA clubs were targeted by arsonists.

Police in the North are investigating a suspicious fire that caused extensive damage to a GAA clubhouse in Co Tyrone this morning.

A man who repeatedly raped a married Polish woman in the grounds of a west Dublin church and school has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

PREPARATORY work on the long-awaited flood relief scheme in Clonmel is expected to be complete by the end of this year.

A man kicked and punched his estranged wife to the ground and then threw a car battery at her because he didn't like how she answered a question, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

ONE of the nicest approaches to any Irish town is the way the road drops down into Clonakilty town through towering old hardwood trees: you just know that you are entering a place with a long history.

THE Garvey supermarket chain has acquired Guerin’s Shopping Centre in Listowel for an undisclosed sum.