A man has told a court that his neighbours say that they can’t help to pay a €63,000 bill he is facing from an ill-fated court case seeking to prevent a Traveller family moving into their area.

A woman going shopping last night spotted what turned out to be a pipebomb attached to her family car in Limerick in what is believed to be an escalation of a drugs feud.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan’s expected nomination as Ireland’s EU commissioner in Brussels has been questioned after a number of controversial appointments he made to State bodies.

Did David McWilliams feel like he was witnessing a train crash in slow motion when he highlighted the property bubble before its collapse? This is how groups like Wind Aware feel now.

IN his letter (October 23), John Mulligan states that genuine reform of local government needs to happen. I agree.

A man was remanded in custody today accused of killing a popular publican.

AN arts centre is being planned for the picturesque town of Ballina/Killaloe on the shores of Lough Derg.

North Tipperary County Council will early next week seek a High Court injunction aimed at preventing a group of protesters from maintaining a blockade close to a house which has been allocated to a family who are members of the Travelling Community.

JUST two weeks after O’Flynn Construction was refused planning permission for a development in Glanmire, Co Cork, another builder has had plans turned down in the same area.

Three men who are accused of burgling the home of an elderly man in Fermoy before a high speed chase to Cork city in heavy traffic yesterday afternoon were remanded in custody today.