THE tragic death of teenager Ronan Hughes highlights not just the ongoing problem of cyberbullying but the growing phenomenon of criminal gangs extorting money from vulnerable individuals.

Up to 150 jobs are to be created as Ireland’s first ever international satellite television channel, IrishTV, is launched.

Next month will see the launch of Ireland's first ever international television channel.

A man has been seriously injured in a single-vehicle road collision in Dundalk, Co Louth.

More than 20m visitors have passed through Ireland’s busiest airport this year — the first time the landmark level has been reached since 2009.

Gregory McGonigle’s Monaghan are firmly on course for a fourth successive TG4 Ulster ladies’ senior football championship title.

The search for one of the IRA’s so-called Disappeared victims has resumed in a vast bog near the Irish border.

AN 11-month-old baby boy has died following a tragic bath-time accident in the family home in Cork city.

A BODY exhumed from a cemetery in Monaghan in the long-running search for a suspected teenage IRA victim who vanished in 1975 is not one of the so-called Disappeared.

A body exhumed from a cemetery in the long-running search for a teenage IRA victim murdered without trace in 1975 is not one of the so-called 'Disappeared'.

A body exhumed from a churchyard cemetery where it was secretly buried is suspected to be a teenage IRA victim murdered 35 years ago.

GAA clubs in Tyrone could be brought to the brink of collapse by financial distress, the county chairman warned last night.

A Co Tyrone man has been sentenced in seven years in jail after he was found guilty “beyond all doubt” by the Special Criminal Court of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Tipperary senior player Claire Grogan was instrumental as Cashel dug deep to take the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie title at Clarecastle this afternoon.

A MAJOR voluntary campaign is seeking to send truckloads of spare clothes, food and household goods to some of Ireland’s worst affected flood crisis areas by the weekend.

An outspoken judge today apologised for branding people from County Tyrone typically 'thick'.

New plans to issue death certificates to families of people missing for more than seven years will not bring closure to relatives of the so-called Disappeared, it was claimed today.

Gerry Adams was today challenged to have face-to-face talks with republicans allegedly involved in the murders and secret burials of the so-called Disappeared.

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.

A confidential telephone number and address are to be set up to help locate the bodies of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, it was announced today.

A mother of 10 who was abducted and shot dead by the IRA nearly 34 years ago was officially cleared today of allegations that she was an informer.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny today backed the November 24 deadline set by Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern for the return of power-sharing in the North.

Detectives were searching for two men today after a woman was stabbed during a robbery in Co Tyrone.

THE British and Irish Governments are to appoint a forensic expert to help locate the bodies of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, British Northern Secretary Peter Hain confirmed yesterday.

The Irish and British governments are looking at a number of candidates to appoint a forensic expert to help locate the bodies of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain confirmed today.

THE British and Irish Governments were yesterday urged to do more to help locate the burial sites of people abducted and murdered by the IRA.

The British and Irish Governments were today urged to do more to help locate the burial sites of people abducted and murdered by the IRA during the Troubles.

A WINTER of discontent awaits the losers of Sunday’s Cork SHC final. However, no matter what the outcome, for Blackrock’s Alan Cummins the months ahead are sure to be filled with warm sunshine and happy memories.

The opening stages of a new bid to find the body of another of the “disappeared” – people who vanished after being abducted and murdered by the IRA up to 30 years ago – proved unproductive in a bogland area of the Co Monaghan today.

The IRA has insisted it has supplied all the information it has about people who have been missing in Northern Ireland since the Troubles.

Gardai at Navan have named the 34-year-old man who died following a hit-and-run accident on the Navan to Slane Road last night.

Gardai are now hunting the driver of a van involved in a hit-and-run last night in Co Meath.

It has now emerged that one man was killed and another injured in what Gardai think was a 'hit-and-run' incident last night in Co Meath.

Republicans were not involved in the murder of a taxi driver shot dead in Northern Ireland, his family claimed today.

Sinn Fein has labelled this morning’s arrest of a senior Republican in Co Tyrone as a stunt.

A leading republican was arrested today for questioning about the murder of a Catholic taxi driver in Co Tyrone earlier this week.

A taxi driver hit with a shotgun blast in Northern Ireland was the victim of a grudge killing by republicans, it was claimed yesterday.

A loyalist gang has claimed responsibility for the murder of a taxi driver in Co. Tyrone last night but there is some concern over its veracity.

A taxi driver shot dead in Northern Ireland may have been the victim of a fall out among republicans, it was claimed today.

A Catholic taxi driver was shot dead last night in the North. The man was found dead in his cab at the village of Donaghmore, Co Tyrone.