Three men appeared before a special sitting of Trim District Court at 7.30pm tonight charged in connection with a cash in transit robbery outside a bank on Friday.

Anti-gang Garda units confronted an armed crime boss when they thwarted an attempted robbery of a security van.

A former official with the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) who is facing jail for leaking potentially commercially sensitive information told investigators he thought he was advancing the interests of the agency.

Eighty new jobs are to be created as Avoca opens a new store in Dunboyne, Co Meath.

Every secondary school should have a professional psychotherapist working on-site to help identify at-risk teenagers before they become suicidal, according to Jimmy O’Connell, a psychotherapist and teacher.

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A German media outlet was left a Lidl bit embarrassed this week after they fell for a satirical report from Waterford Whispers News.

A former Nama official accused of disclosing confidential information has failed to appear before court to enter a plea.

Missing woman Ann King has been located safe and well.

An app tackling childhood obesity has been designed so that the children are rewarded for healthy food choices and for taking exercise.

A former Nama official has been served with a book of evidence and returned for trial accused of leaking confidential information.

The Government has been advised that at least nine institutions should be included in the mother-and-baby home investigation and that death rates there were "undesirably high".

Three years ago John Joyce began creating a virtual world full of fun games that also help to educate children, and now Savvybear.com is getting ready to take on the world, writes Trish Dromey

A well-known, retired horse breeder and trainer has launched High Court proceedings against a business man she claims wrongly transferred a plot of her land into his own name.

Gardaí are appealing for public assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 17-year-old Niall Dawson.

It was back to the future when Clerys in Dublin opened for business yesterday.

Gardaí in Dublin and Meath are searching for a man who robbed a cash-in-transit van at gunpoint yesterday.

Beef farmers can boost their profitability by predicting rather than reacting to demand, says Dr Pearse Lyons, president and founder of animal health and nutrition company Alltech.

This is not a joke.

Global animal health and nutrition company Alltech has appointed Dr Tugrul Durali as Asia-Pacific technical manager for its mycotoxin management team.

Animal health and nutrition company Alltech is applying its animal nutritional technology to crop science with a yeast-fuelled alternative to conventional agrochemicals.

Gain Horse Feeds in Wexford has become the first official partner to sign up for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 in Normandy.

An enterprising Irish firm believes it has come up with a solution to the growing problem of public art thefts around the country.

Residents of a Co Meath village are "devastated" after a 35-year-old pregnant woman was found in the sea near Howth.

Gardaí have today renewed their appealed for assistance in tracing a 35-year-old pregnant woman who has been missing from her home in Dunboyne, Co Meath since yesterday.

FOR one soccer fan, celebrations of Ireland’s qualification for the European Championships finals were more prolonged than planned, thanks to a chance encounter with defender Sean St Ledger.

Cyclists from far and wide are descending on Dunboyne, Co Meath this weekend for the annual An Post Rás event.

A gambler was given a suspended jail term today after he threatened to kill dual Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Conduit unless he was withdrawn from a race.

CONCRETE products company The Kilsaran Group has effectively announced 120 jobs as part of a €30 million investment at its headquarters in Dunboyne, Co Meath.

Four men are due in court this morning in connection with a €2m heroin seizure in Co Kildare on Thursday.

Six men were being questioned by drugs squad officers today after two separate garda searches recovered more than €8m of cannabis and heroin.

Boxer Darren Sutherland was a role model to children by returning to the classroom to get into university, it was claimed tonight.

Former Government press secretary Frank Dunlop was today jailed for 18 months and fined €30,000 for corruption after bribing councillors to rezone land around Dublin for lucrative development deals.

Former Government press secretary Frank Dunlop will be sentenced today for bribing councillors to rezone land for development.

Former Government press secretary and lobbyist Frank Dunlop has pleaded guilty to bribing Dublin County Councillors to vote in favour of a land deal in the 90s.

TRAVEL firm Dunne and King Travel Limited, trading as Let’s Travel, is the latest tour operator to go out of business.

Former government press secretary and lobbyist Frank Dunlop appeared at Dublin District Court this afternoon to face 16 charges of corruption.

MAHON Tribunal lawyers yesterday expressed surprise that developer Owen O’Callaghan failed to ask Frank Dunlop if he had made paid bribes on his behalf after the political lobbyist admitted his role in planning corruption.

A YOUNG Dublin man arrested following the shooting dead of a teenager in Co Meath told arresting gardaí he didn’t mean for anyone to get shot.

Gardaí have arrested two people in relation to the fatal shooting of a Nigerian teenager in Dunboyne, Co Meath.

Gardaí are tonight hunting two gunmen who murdered a Nigerian teenager in a quiet Irish village.