Local Enterprise Offices have supported the creation of 18,640 jobs in their first five years.

A number of polling stations for today’s general election are not wheelchair accessible, voters with mobility issues have been warned.

An early flurry of electoral successes in Dublin prompted talk of green shoots for the Green Party but the countrywide count cautioned that careful cultivation would be required.

People who fall ill suddenly in rural Kerry, north Mayo, west Clare and south-west Donegal are more than an hour’s drive from a hospital A&E, new research has revealed.