Gridlock in Killarney is endangering the tourism industry for the whole county, the local Chamber of Commerce has warned amid growing frustration by tourists and residents over a chronic lack of parking and traffic management plans.

Gardaí are investigating four separate road crashes in which people were killed over the weekend.

An investigation is underway after a motorcyclist in his late 40s was killed in a crash in Co Tipperary.

A 27-year-old man has died in a crash in County Westmeath.

Cocaine, heroin, cannabis and pills thought to be worth up to €188,000 (pending analysis) have been seized in Tallaght in Dublin.

The devastated parents of a teenager who died after taking a deadly synthetic drug, which he thought was cocaine, have pleaded with young people to stay away from drugs.

A 17-year-old who sold the psychoactive drug U47700 in a case where a teenager died in Cork in January felt that his crime did not warrant a jail term.

A book of evidence was served today on a 17-year-old charged with sale or supply of the psychoactive drug U47700 arising out of the investigation of the death of a teenager in Cork in January.

A 16-year-old boy died after he took a lethal combination of the deadly opioid U-47700 in addition to ecstasy tablets, Cork Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.

After 30 years in residence, since they got married and with a family reared, the owners of this dormer are selling up to move closer to adult offspring.

A trainee manager at Starbucks pleaded guilty to embezzling €15,000 in the course of his work at the outlet at Douglas, Cork, in 2015.

Changes to residents’ permits, the relocation of town jarveys, and the creation of a bypass through a residential area in Killarney are among suggestions aimed at resolving chronic traffic delays in the Kerry tourist town.

A man broke into two houses on Sherkin Island and stole alcohol before being arrested after landing back on the mainland by ferry.

The operators of the 3Arena are among appellants in relation to recent permission for increased audience capacity for concerts at the Citywest centre in south Dublin.

A 47-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with a 14-hour armed stand-off with gardaí in Dublin yesterday.

Around 90 families in Co Westmeath are facing the prospect of flooded homes as the River Shannon continues to rise in Athlone.

A house at the centre of a murder-suicide in Charleville, Co Cork, remains standing despite pleas from the bereaved family to demolish it.

The mother of a young man who stabbed his twin brothers more than 40 times before taking his own life has made an emotional plea to people experiencing mental health difficulties to seek help.

A Bandon man who took enough Valium for one month in a 48-hour period ended up seriously assaulting his sleeping friend by stabbing him repeatedly.

A teenager who was due to collect his Leaving Cert results in two weeks has been killed in a motorbike accident in his native Poland.

A mother who lost three sons in a murder-suicide in North Cork in September has thanked the public for donations she has received towards the €13,000 funeral bill.

The mother who lost three sons in a tragic murder-suicide in Co Cork in September has issued an emotional appeal for help as her family faces a €13,000 funeral bill.

The mother of the nine-year-old twin boys murdered in north Cork earlier this month has said she forgives their adopted brother who killed them before taking his own life.

An initiative aimed at reviving colleges hurling in Cork city is being spearheaded by Leeside GAA legends.

In heartrending scenes, as the body of 21-year-old Jonathan O’Driscoll was lowered into the ground, his mother Helen asked to say a few words.

A leading psychiatrist has said the exact circumstances surrounding the murder-suicide of twins Paddy and Thomas O’Driscoll and their brother Jonathan needed to come to light before the stunned local community of Charleville could come to terms with what had happened.

The school commute from Charleville to Banogue National School took in a chilling new sight on a balmy autumn morning.

Post mortem examinations are taking place on the bodies of the three O'Driscoll brothers who died in Co Cork yesterday.

The school of Thomas and Patrick O’Driscoll, who were found dead in their home just outside Charleville, Co Cork yesterday, has described the twins as "loving, energetic and full of fun".

Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out on three members of a family, including twin boys, suspected of dying in a double murder and suicide.

The Cork community of Charleville is reeling after a murder-suicide left three members of the same family dead.

It is just over two years, almost to the day, since the tragic death of a child devastated the north Cork town of Charleville.

People in the north Cork town of Charleville are grappling with a devastating family tragedy, after the bodies of three brothers were found in two separate locations.

By Stephen Rogers

Gardaí investigating the discovery of the bodies of twin boys in north Cork, have discovered a third body.

Twin boys, believed to be aged around eight years old, have been found dead in a house in Charleville, Co Cork.

It has been reported that two children have been found dead in a house in Charleville, Co Cork.