Update: Homes, farms and businesses are still without power supply following bad weather overnight after almost 10,000 customers were affected this morninhg, mainly in Cork, Tipperary and Wexford.

A man in Co Donegal has died following an accident during a tree-cutting exercise.

Some 161,000 people are at risk of crippling illness from a microscopic parasite in drinking water, watchdogs have warned.

A county councillor who appeared in an RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme has been ordered to pay a compensation order after a court heard how he dined in expensive Dublin restaurants and spent lavishly on clothing.

A judge has warned a politician who featured in an RTÉ Investigates programme to appear in court next month or face arrest over a long-running failure to pay compensation to a woman injured on a building site.

Brave neighbours managed to pull a 76-year-old woman from her burning home in Co Donegal, but she died at the scene just minutes later.

A retired banker who became tech-savvy to indulge his love of music is the country’s top silver surfer.

With Jim McGuinness double-jobbing between his new role as Celtic’s performance consultant and Donegal manager, he can conceivably reach Glasgow faster than he would Dublin.

Danny Doohan is too nervous to talk.

Love knows no bounds for one Donegal couple — the love of football that is.

The night Chelsea defeated Barcelona in the Champions’ League semi-final second leg, Jim McGuinness watched on TV from his home in Creeslough with a grin on his face as Roberto Di Matteo’s unorthodox tactics unfolded.

There have been 124 All-Ireland football champions proclaimed over the course of three different centuries but Paddy McBrearty believes Donegal’s would rank as the greatest of them all were they to claim Sam Maguire this year.

A BRIDE ended up working in her wedding dress on her big day when she dropped in to say hello to colleagues.

THERE was a time when the roll-call for Miss Ireland was a bit like the GAA Championships — Miss Dublin, Miss Cork, Miss Donegal etc.

The High Court has today granted permission to a Co Donegal-based Garda Sergeant to bring a challenge aimed at quashing the Garda Ombudsman's decision to conduct an investigation into allegations that the Garda has harassed a man over a four-year period.

A man in the North has been shot in both legs during an incident in West Belfast overnight.

THIRTY-FIVE students were thrown off their school bus on Friday after antisocial behaviour involving eggs and flour being thrown.

A man in his twenties has been killed in a car crash in county Donegal

Two million euros worth of property belonging to a Dublin criminal who disappeared in Spain 18 months ago are reportedly being put on the market by the Criminal Assets Bureau today.

Two men in their late teens have died after the car they were travelling in collided with a van in Creeslough, Co Donegal, this morning.

A PSYCHIATRIC patient found dead in a river three days after he disappeared, had appeared calm and quietly read a book on the journey back to the mental health unit where he was being treated.