The €12,155,282 Lotto jackpot winner has managed to remain invisible in a seaside town where all the locals know each other.

A death threat against an Irish soldier purported to have been made by a republican terror group may be spurious, investigators suspect.

Gardaí are investigating a death threat against an Irish soldier purported to have been made by a republican terrorist group.

Defence Minister Alan Shatter has confirmed there are more than 800 soldiers in receipt of a border allowance that will cost the State €4m this year.

TENS of thousands of homes were left without electricity yesterday as the remnants of Hurricane Katia pounded our shores.

AN Irish army officer has come to the rescue of desperate mothers and wives and set up a life skills boot camp for husbands and sons.

FIRE chiefs and forestry agents warned last night that raging fires could continue today and possibly even further into the week as the sun continued to blaze across the north-west.

Emergency services on both sides of the border are this afternoon battling bog, forest and gorse fires.

IRISH army personnel have been paid almost €2.5 million in border allowances this year, despite the closure of a number of barracks close to the border and the stemming of the threat of violence from such a posting.

Bomb disposal experts today carried out a controlled explosion on a pipebomb left outside a so-called head shop.

AN army sergeant was yesterday remanded for court martial in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a female reservist in her bed.

A SENIOR Garda officer yesterday denied telling a "pack of lies" to the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption to protect the reputation of the force.

A senior Garda officer today denied telling a “pack of lies” to the Morris Tribunal to protect the reputation of the force.

THE body of the Canadian seaman who died following a fire on the stricken submarine, Chicoutimi, was returned home yesterday after a joint Irish-Canadian military and religious service at Dublin Airport.

A fishing boat has sunk off the north-west coast.

The body of an angler has been recovered from Lough Corrib in Co Galway.

Two divers have been airlifted from the Donegal coast to hospital this afternoon.

A 32-year-old fisherman is being airlifted to Sligo Hospital after being injured on a trawler 75 miles off the Donegal coast.

A Dauphin rescue helicopter from Finner Camp in Co Donegal has been involved in an emergency airlift.

A man who was washed off the pier in Enniscrone, Co Sligo, this afternoon has been found safe and well.

There is a rescue operation currently underway off the Donegal coast, after

The Air Corps from Finner Camp have rescued a teenager from rocks off Killybegs this morning.

The Minister for Defence, Michael Smith, will later today review a platoon of Irish soldiers in Co Donegal before they leave to serve in East Timor.