A Galway creche has been forced to close temporarily after an outbreak of E.coli which left two small children needing hospitalisation.

Fiann O Nualláin identifies the veggie varieties best suited to our climate.

Given his surname and upbringing — on a tiny island of fewer than 600 people in Norway — on first glance it seems unlikely that Thomas Westgaard would be competing for Ireland in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

A 33-year-old man is being questioned by gardaí investigating a drug seizure in Kilkenny.

Tommy Barker says this example of contemporary design, at just 10 years old, benefits from a mature setting on Model Farm Road.

Last week a former master of the Coombe Hospital, Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, complained that people are “firmly pro-choice or pro-life; nobody seems to live in the space in between”.

A legend, a leader, a braveheart, a kind, loving and spiritual man were among the accolades used to describe Willie Duggan at his funeral Mass, when more than 1,000 people gathered to say farewell to a giant of Irish and international rugby.

Only two episodes in, and already locals in Dunmore East are noticing an increase in tourist numbers, says Jonathan deBurca Butler.

Youth took its chance and made it count as a young Kilkenny side made a winning start to the county’s Walsh Cup campaign.

An elderly man is in critical condition in hospital after a hit-and-run in Co. Galway.

In the second of our tourism series, Conor Kane drops in on Dunmore East, the location of the new ‘EastEnders’ spin-off

John Martin closes the front door of his uncle Nick Power’s house behind him and makes for the top of Oxmantown road. His instruction, from there, is to turn right onto North Circular Road and head in the direction of the City centre until Croke Park presents itself in the Dublin skyline. Martin, having never been to Croker, hasn’t one iota where he’s going.

It may be Star Wars: Episode VIII but this is the third successive year the Force has arrived in Kerry with its dramatic scenery hosting the Jedi the longest.

Saddle up to get a view of our magnificent landscape. There is simply no better way to appreciate our country says Dan MacCarthy

DIT 4-14 Kilkenny 0-16: Conor McDonald returned to haunt Kilkenny when he led the Dublin Institute of Technology to a big win in the Walsh Cup last night.

County under-21 manager Eddie Brennan took charge of the Cats tonight.

A 10-year-old girl who is tetraplegic after injuries she received at birth in Waterford Regional Hospital has settled her action against the HSE for €9m.

An ‘exceptionally-well finished’ property comes to the market just outside of Clonakilty, says Tommy Barker.

Cork boss Jimmy Barry-Murphy wasn’t surprised by Kilkenny’s display: "I wouldn’t expect anything else from Kilkenny.

A community bicycle rental scheme, the first of its kind in an Irish town, is being planned for West Cork.

Old school friends paid a poignant tribute to one of their own.

It’s 50 years since arguably the greatest Connacht football rivalry of them all fired its first shots.

British explorer ABT Oil & Gas is to farm-in to

Three coffins; three hearses outside the church in the village of Crooke; three men who loved boats and fishing from the time they could walk.

A married couple in their 50s have appeared in court in Dublin today following several arrests in connection with a spate of recent burglaries in the South East.

Waterford Regional Hospital apologised to an 8-year-old girl who has been left tetraplegic as a result of injuries received at her birth.

A Donegal farmer has been jailed for 12 years for the sexual abuse of seven children.

Bank of Ireland has cut its counter cash services to three days a week across a network of branches.

There were harrowing scenes of grief as heartbroken parents John and Michelle Gilmore watched their two “little princesses” being laid to rest yesterday.

Post mortems are to be carried out on the two children killed tragically in Co Galway yesterday afternoon.

A Sunday afternoon stroll in the autumn sunshine turned into tragedy yesterday when a two-year-old girl and her 12-week-old sister were killed when they were knocked down by a car.

A Sunday family walk turned to tragedy when two young sisters were knocked down and killed in Co Galway today.

A two-year-old girl and her two-month-old baby sister have been killed in a car accident in Co Galway this afternoon.

A section of motorway was closed for a number of hours yesterday after a man was killed when he was hit by a truck.

A 24-year-old man has died in a crash in Co Galway.

God loves a trier and on the salmon season’s opening day last Wednesday Peter Wolstenholme hooked the first salmon of the 2012 season on the Bandon Salmon & Trout Anglers club waters.

A 36-year-old man who was killed in a crash in Co Galway yesterday has today been named as Dermot Kenny from Dunmore.