One of the country's largest insurers has said it is investigating “organised rings” of people staging car crashes around the country, writes Noel Baker of the Irish Examiner.

THE chief executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) said yesterday he expected up to 1,800 out-patients to be treated under the scheme in Cork and Kerry this year.

A new Irish language soap opera is aiming to offer teenagers an alternative to the US-dominated television market when it hits screens in November.