She left Dublin for LA at just 17 – and wrote music for everyone from Niall Horan to Britney Spears. But as she performs in Cork this weekend, Ruth Anne tells Ed Power she’s finally ready

A nurse has told a murder trial how she discovered a man had a knife “embedded” in his chest with the handle “snapped off” after she ran to his assistance following a row.

Two school patrons have breached Department of Education limits on spending on promotional materials when seeking parents’ backing to open new schools.

Unless it’s squeaky tight, and it may be, we’ll know by lunch time on Saturday how Friday’s referendum went.

A veteran taxi driver has been cleared of not bringing passengers on the shortest journey from Dublin Airport to Temple Bar after demonstrating to a court that the longer route he picked was cheaper.

"The cocaine use may have diminished his intellectual powers and made him vulnerable."

Rents for two- and three-bedroom homes close to the new Luas cross-city route soared by 21% in the last year.

Olivia Kelleher meets volunteers who create hand-made prostheses for women who’ve had mastectomies

Friends of a husband and wife who died from cancer within weeks of each other are driving an online funding campaign to help secure the future of their three young children.

Five members of a gang who terrorised a young family in 2013 during an aggravated burglary will be in court next month appealing the severity of the prison sentences they received.

The Irish public’s love of the ‘Big Mac’ has shown no sign of abating as profits and revenues increased at the Irish arm of McDonald’s.

The Garda Air Support Unit flew more than 1,500 hours last year, targeting crimes in progress and on one occasion locating a missing person who may not otherwise have survived the night.

Dublin based dissident republican Vincent Ryan died of gunshot wounds to the head. Ryan, from Grange Abbey Drive in Donaghmede, died on February 29, 2016.

Hundreds of children had their schoolday disrupted yesterday due to bomb hoaxes at several primary schools.

A judge has refused to throw out the case of two men and a woman, accused of engaging in threatening and abusive language, allegedly directed at President Michael D Higgins.

Damien Dempsey is from Donaghmede in Dublin, and his musical influences include traditional sean-nós, as well as his heroes, Bob Marley and Elvis Presley. Upcoming gigs include Cork Opera House, next Friday, April 1; and the National Opera House, Wexford, on April 2.

The State has been given time to clarify issues raised about the case of a man accused of using “threatening and abusive language” towards the President.

Vincent Ryan’s partner and mother of his baby daughter spoke of their wedding plans at his funeral yesterday.

Lawyers for a man accused of using threatening and abusive language towards President Michael D. Higgins claim his summons is “fatally flawed”.

Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch returned to Dublin at the weekend to attend a christening.

The jailed crime boss under suspicion for the murder of dissident republican Vincent Ryan is under prison protection — but has not received a death threat over the fatal shooting.

Gardaí are expecting the Real IRA to “put on a show” at the funeral of murdered dissident Vincent Ryan.

A former Labour and Sinn Féin Dublin City councillor has pleaded guilty to making hoax telephone calls, a court has heard.

Gardaí in Dublin are again on high alert after a brother of a murdered dissident republican leader died last night following a gun attack.

It was a horrific and violent attack on a young family that caused “catastrophic changes” to their lives and “shocked an entire nation”.

An eight-year-old girl told gardaí she thought her “daddy was going to die” when he was assaulted by an armed gang during an aggravated burglary in the family home, a court heard yesterday.

Labour TDs would not agree to the sale of Aer Lingus without the deficit in the pension scheme being addressed. 

EARLIER this week, singer Damien Dempsey stood on stage at Trafalgar Square, in London, under the stern gaze of Admiral Nelson’s statue.

Four water charges protes-ters were yesterday freed from jail by the president of the High Court after he upheld their claims that they were unlawfully detained in Mountjoy Prison under a committal warrant that contained a number of errors.

A fundraising appeal has been launched to help with the repatriation costs of the remains of a young Irish boy who died in Australia last week.

Five water meter protesters have been given prison sentences by the High Court for breaching an order restraining them from coming within a 20m exclusion zone surrounding installation works.

Four Dublin water protesters have been jailed for breaching court orders not to interfere with water meter installations.

Nama has secured final judgment for €8m against the wife of Priory Hall builder Thomas McFeely arising out of an unpaid loan secured on the family home in Ailesbury Rd, Dublin.

A father-of-one who robbed a shop with two others because he was desperate for money “for the kid for Christmas” has avoided a jail term.

Three anti-water charge protesters have been given a suspended 28-day sentence after they were found guilty of contempt of court.

Four men have admitted being involved in an aggravated burglary while in possession of two guns and a machete at the rural home of a young family last year.

It is abundantly clear that the extent of the water charges backlash has caused the Government to panic to such an extent that it was prepared to offer almost anything to the electorate to quell the protests and let it get on with business.

Irish Water contractors are in a stand-off with water charge protestors in Dublin.

A man who struck another man’s face with a glass leaving him permanently scarred has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Gardaí are bracing themselves for retaliation after a man was shot dead and his partner injured outside a primary school in north Dublin.