The National Monuments Service has been notified of a possible Bronze Age cemetery and settlement near Duleek in Co Meath.

Waste firm Indaver says it is open to dialogue with Cork Harbour residents about its controversial €160m incinerator project.

Update 12.12pm The Housing Minister has said the Government will not be providing any compensation to businesses affected by the water crisis in the North East.

And all because a few good men and women wanted to do the impossible for a worthy cause, writes Fergus Finlay.

Rent rises for tens of thousands of tenants in Cork, Galway, and areas around Dublin will be capped from today, but some cities and towns have failed a ‘rent pressure zone’ test, sparking a backlash from TDs.

A Meath family have been left “happier than any lottery winners” after being reunited with their beloved pet dog who went missing from their home six months ago.

Two teenagers involved in what a judge said was “wanton destruction” of a factory, resulting in millions of euro in damage and the loss of 24 jobs, yesterday got custodial detention sentences.

Most of us will have heard of the acronym, Nimby — ‘not in my backyard’. It refers to those who object to having utilities, pylons, social housing, and much more located anywhere near where they live. It’s typically considered and meant to be a derogatory term.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates an incinerator at Duleek, Co Meath, increased last year by 18% to €12.5m.

The family who run a paper business which was burnt to the ground in a suspected arson attack have vowed “we will overcome this unfortunate incident”.

A seven year old girl who as a baby suffered brain damage due to water on the brain has settled her High Court action with an interim payment of €2.4m for the next 10 years.

Water on the brain which caused brain damage to a baby would have been detected if a public nurse during regular check ups had taken appropriate action, a High Court judge ruled yesterday.

Businessman James Mansfield Jr has lost his appeal against summary judgment orders for €6.32m against him and others over unpaid loans to buy and develop lands in Co Meath.

Tributes have been paid to a couple who died in a house fire in Meath over the weekend.

A man and a woman in their forties have been found dead in a house fire in Co Meath.

Anti-water charges campaigners predict more than 100,000 protesters will be on the streets at 70 demonstrations around the country this Saturday.

A priest has asked people who lost loved ones through road carnage to write to, telephone, and visit the families of two young men killed in a car crash in Co Donegal.

A 22-year-old man has died after his car hit a wall in Co Meath.

Ten food outlets were closed in February by the Food Safety Authority after health breaches.

Gardaí have praised people who saw a row being planned between groups of teenagers on Facebook and Twitter and alerted gardaí.

Gardaí in Meath have seized nearly €500,000 worth of drugs.

Two men are due to appear in court later, charged in connection with the death of Daniel McAnaspie.

MEATH County Council yesterday dismantled an animal farm and playground, built without planning permission, on a green area in the Churchfields estate in Kentstown outside Navan.

A concrete manufacturing firm has paid over €7.6m in unpaid taxes and penalties to the Revenue Commissioners.

A number of Bus Éireann services in the east and north west are experiencing delays today.

AIB has secured judgment orders totalling around €22.7 million in two Commercial Court cases against businessmen for unpaid loans relating to development properties.

The Irish Pharmacy Union is hitting out at the HSE for its failure to raise awareness of the introduction of the new prescription levy.

MURDERED teenager Daniel McAnaspie was stabbed at least six times in what gardaí have described as a “desperate act”.

Detectives investigating the murder of Daniel McAnaspie believe more than one person was involved in his killing, it emerged today.

THE family of a Dublin teenager who vanished almost three months ago are still facing an anxious wait to find out if the body of a young male discovered in Co Meath on Thursday is that of their missing relative.

The Commercial Court will rule later tomorrow if Allied Irish Bank is entitled to summary judgment orders for some €6.28m against four businessmen, including a son of well-known hotelier Jim Mansfield, over their alleged failure to repay loans advanced to develop lands in Co Meath.

Met Éireann is warning of large snow falls across the east of the country this afternoon, severely disrupting transport, as the sub-zero conditions show no sign of abating.

A foreign national in his 30s has died following a road crash in Co Meath last night.

THE sight of 175 combine harvesters moving in four separate lines across Gerry Curran’s huge tillage field at Platin, near Duleek, Co Meath, was awesome.

The wait ended today for thousands of Ikea lovers when the Swedish furniture giant opened its first store in the Republic.

THE best Christmas presents were still wrapped yesterday — in swaddling clothes and baby grows.

Oasis today confirmed their worst-kept tour secret with the news that they will play for up to 80,000 fans at Slane Castle in Ireland next summer.

A woman in her thirties is in a serious condition in hospital this evening after a crash on the N2 in County Meath today.

An oil tanker has gone off the road in Co Meath causing traffic diversions on the N2.

A teenager convicted of stabbing his mother’s partner with a boning knife was jailed for five and a half years at the Central Criminal Court this morning.

A teenager convicted of stabbing his mother’s partner with a boning knife last year will be sentenced tomorrow morning at the Central Criminal Court.

A planned balloon launch by an Anti-Incinerator lobby in County Meath has been cancelled due to bad weather.

An Bord Pleanala is facing strong opposition from residents in Nobber, Co Meath to the construction of a second incinerator in the area.