Drugs worth more than €400,000 have been discovered in County Meath.

A new report by An Bord Pleanála has illustrated the regional imbalance of large housing, apartment and student accommodation development proposals, with the vast majority located in the Dublin and commuter region.

Lidl has confirmed plans for the roll-out of a further 50 stores across the island of Ireland.

A Co Meath garda whose legs were crushed in a brutal repeated assault in August 2015 has been awarded €975,000 compensation by the High Court.

A young family had a narrow escape when their car went up in flames on the M3 motorway last weekend.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reported that six Closure Orders and one Improvement Order were served on food businesses during the month of April.

Wicklow are among four Leinster counties represented.

The Minister for Education Richard Bruton announced today that 42 new schools will be built over the next four years.

Gardaí are searching for a couple who brought two young children with them as they carried out a planned assault and car theft in Co Meath.

A man has been assaulted after the car he was selling was stolen from him yesterday evening in Co. Meath.

A young man who fractured his skull when he was hit by a quad bike on a farm when he was only 12 years old has settled his High Court action for €125,000.

A former company director who pleaded guilty to operating a price fixing scam that targeted large firms including Google and Paypal, was fined €7,500 at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 23-year-old man arrested during a planned raid in Co. Meath has been charged.

Gardaí are to conduct further searches in Meath today after seizing drugs, money and a firearm yesterday.

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.

Cork City will see the most exciting developments since independence over the next two decades with huge growth and investment which will transform its landscape, Housing Minister Simon Coveney said.

Offaly was the big winner in the Best Dressed Lady competition yesterday, with Lisa McGowan from Tullamore taking away the big prize.

From the Easter Rising in Dublin to the slaughter and carnage of the Battle of the Somme, 1916 was a fateful year in the minds and lives of Irish country house owners.

Sixteen new fire stations will be built and another 10 refurbished over the next five years.

Three planning experts have warned against merging Cork city and county councils, claiming that a single authority will be oversized, unwieldy, undemocratic and unworkable.

UK Athletics has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Mo Farah in the initial findings of its investigation into allegations of doping against his coach Alberto Salazar.

Austin Stacks became the first Kerry team since 1991, and only the second club from the county, to be crowned All- Ireland U14 Féile Peil na nÓg champions after a dramatic final yesterday.

Warrenstown is possibly best remembered in the agricultural community for the very fine horticultural and agricultural college based there until the 2000s. 

The operators of one of the most controversial road schemes ever built in the country generated over €370,000 per week in operating profits from the route last year.

NAMA says funding is in place to deliver 4,500 new houses and apartments in Dublin over the next 18 months.

Over half of au pairs earn less than €3 a hour, according to a survey which says Ireland "has become inextricably linked with cheap childcare and domestic work in the private house."

Gardaí in Co Meath are renewing their appeal for the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of a missing 25-year-old man.

An addict who was on his way to buy drugs when he fatally injured a 14-year-old boy in a hit and run has received a 20-month prison sentence.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a crash in Co Meath that claimed the life of a young man and left five others injured.

A man has died after a road accident in Co Meath last night.

Meath champions Navan O’Mahonys strolled through to the county SFC quarter-finals with a 0-10 to 0-5 victory over Seneschalstown in yesterday’s fourth-round clash at Stamullen.

SINCE he was a boy, Paddy Mangan has enjoyed running.

Agri Aware’s new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) agri ambassadors Dallan Shovlin and Darragh Smith are adding an educational bonus to visits to the Family Farm in Dublin Zoo.

The Government faces criticism over its decision to reduce polling hours for the Meath East by-election after a dismal turnout by voters at count centres.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has today appealed to road users to take extra care following predictions of snow showers for tomorrow morning.

A 31-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with a hit-and-run in Cabra a year ago.

It was one of the most controversial road schemes ever built — but now the M3 motorway is making tens of millions of euro in profits for its private operator.

A footballer’s scrotum was torn open during a GAA minor championship match in Co Meath three years ago, a court heard yesterday.

Katie Taylor’s camp are examining a clause which they believe may allow the Olympic gold medallist fight up to 15 times as a professional before reverting to the amateur ranks, from where she would be able to defend her title in Rio in 2016.

A 24-year-old man has died after an overnight crash in Co Meath.