Gardaí in Co Meath are appealing for witnesses to a shooting at a house in Slane last night.

An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, has today welcomed An Bord Pleanála's refusal of plans for a controversial bypass around Slane village.

The winter solstice has been celebrated at Newgrange for the past 5,000 years Carl Dixon reports on the hope it represents

THE possibility that Newgrange could have a second passage tomb, which may also be aligned with a solstice event, is being explored by a team of Irish and Slovakian archaeologists who are using ground breaking technology.

ROCK concerts at Slane Castle — which has attracted international icons such as U2, the Rolling Stones and this year it will host Kings of Leon — would be “seriously threatened” if the bypass of Slane is built to the west of the village.

The body of an elderly Co Meath man who went missing four days ago has been recovered from the River Boyne today.

THE Government and Meath County Council seem to have a two-forked approach to the development of the Royal County.