At 10pm on Feb 21, 2012, bachelor Michael McMahon heard banging outside his home in rural Co Clare and could see three torches in the darkness outside.

Officials from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) are due to visit Co Clare today, where an elderly farmer died after being kicked by a cow.

An elderly farmer has died trying to save his son, who was being attacked by a cow.

A controversial bishop today appealed for a donor to replace his ‘floating church’ ship which caught fire and sank off the coast of Galway.

PARENTS of more than 30 second-level students are considering moving their children to a different school because they say their bus service has been withdrawn by the Department of Education.