The ad is one of a growing number on classified ads websites where men look for single women who need free accommodation.

Gardaí hope to bring charges against two cousins who hijacked a hotel shuttle bus, with three passengers on board, at Dublin Airport, before embarking on a 100km-plus cross-border rampage.

Paula Farrell, 46, of Rathmullen Park in Drogheda, Co Louth, is accused of murdering Wayne McQuillan, 30, at her home on New Year’s morning in 2014.

A booming cocaine trade has driven the value of the European drugs market to at least €30bn annually, according to a major report.

The 45 year old driver of a car in which back seat passenger Jillian Thornton was killed in May 2016 has been sentenced to fifteen years in jail with one year suspended.

A seven-year-old girl is understood to have died after a car rolled over her in Drogheda, Co Louth, this afternoon.

It is understood that the shooting is linked to the ongoing gang feud in the town.

There is a direct link between wannabe “little generals” shooting each other on Irish streets and the “record” levels of cocaine being trafficked into Europe, a top drug enforcer has said

It was an emotional day for one Kildare man as he visited the National Lottery headquarters to collect a record Lotto prize.

Gardaí in Drogheda, Co Louth, are investigating more than 70 individual incidents directly related to a feud since last summer, it has emerged.

A High Court judge has upheld the Minister for Justice's refusal to allow a married Pakistani couple live here on grounds their application involved an abuse of the wife's free movement rights as an EU citizen.

A local authority was "bewilderingly incompetent" in its conduct when it directed a construction firm to trespass on private land to carry out road and drainage works, a High Court judge said.

Two masked men, armed with pipe-like instruments, threatened security officers and stole a cash box.

So that’s Tuesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Michael Shine (86) of Ballsbridge, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to 13 charges of indecently assaulting seven boys allegedly committed during medical examinations at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth and at two private clinics in Drogheda.

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With the incumbent President Michael D Higgins so far ahead in the race, it was only a matter of time before things became somewhat farcical.

More than a quarter of a million euro, believed to be linked to crime, has been seized in Drogheda, Co Louth.

The retired surgeon has been jailed for 20 months for sexual attacks on two teenage boys in the mid-70s.

The judge in the trial of a retired surgeon accused of groping young male patients has told the jury that it would be dangerous to convict on the “uncorroborated evidence” of any of the complainants.

Irish-American comedian Kathy Griffin is on Interpol’s list after offending Donald Trump, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

An alleged victim of a retired surgeon who denies groping teenage boys has said that he told himself for years that there was nothing improper about what the doctor allegedly did.

Update 10.54am: The family of musician Eamonn Campbell following his recent death in a Dutch hospital.

A retired surgeon has gone on trial accused of indecently assaulting six teenage boys while he was treating them as patients.

A judge has approved a further €1.5m settlement for a former opera singer left severely disabled after a failure to properly diagnose the cause of her headaches.

A decade after Maddie McCann disappeared, Barry Kitchener looks at how the case has descended into a feud between her parents and Portuguese police.

The Retail Grocery Dairy and Allied Trades Association (RGDATA) has temporarily put the brakes on German discounters Aldi and Lidl further expanding in Ireland.

A man has gone on trial charged with kidnapping a post office worker, his partner, and their baby before robbing over €600,000 from the man’s workplace.

A 29-year-old former international amateur boxer and champion bare-fist fighter faces a €20,000 legal costs bill after withdrawing a Circuit Civil Court claim for personal injuries allegedly suffered in a road traffic accident.

A company van driver involved in a number of road rage incidents and eventually convicted of careless driving has been awarded €12,000 after winning his unfair dismissal case.

One in five hospitals inspected last year had to undergo a follow-up inspection due to poor hygiene and maintenance issues.

Aspiring journalist Emma O’Flanagan was prophetic when she wrote “politics is a mess” — long before the outcome of the general election was known.

Management at one of the country’s busiest hospitals has said poor maintenance of some parts of the building is due to overcrowding.

The HSE says an investigation is continuing after confidential patient files were found on a footpath.

A bus passenger who tackled armed robbers has been praised for his selfless actions.

A lucky Lotto player from the north east is €2 million richer today after scooping the jackpot in last night's draw.

A Brazilian company is creating 40 jobs, with the establishment of its European Operations Centre in Dublin.

The Spring Statement tomorrow, which will be announced by the Finance Minister Michael Noonan, is expected to mark the end of austerity in Ireland.

Aspiring journalist Ciara McArdle showed the power of the written word yesterday when she won a national competition that encourages students to read newspapers.

A would-be car thief who knocked himself out trying to break into a Mercedes has become an international laughing stock after video footage of the botched robbery went viral.

A car robbery didn’t go quite as planned for one man in Drogheda.

A ‘thick with a brick’ is a contender for Ireland’s dumbest criminal after a driver found him out cold after he had knocked himself out with a brick while trying to smash a car window.