We’ve seen those lovely visual messages produced by the "yes" campaign in the upcoming marriage referendum. Images of people of different and the same race, sexuality and walks of love hugging and high fiving each other in a visual extravaganza of being "all about the love". One would be hard pressed to object. After all who would not support equality and love?

People across the globe have begun to welcome in the new year, with revellers in New Zealand among those leading the way.

Waterford’s historic T&H Doolan’s inn has been bought by a bar and hospitality family from the south-east for over €500,000 at a lively auction.

A 38 year-old man wanted in the UK for a murder in London last month has appeared in court, following his arrest in South Dublin yesterday.

People are eating, not drinking, their way through the recession, claims the country’s top food and accommodation critic.

RTÉ star Oliver Callan has come out as gay on tele-vision after being accused of being homophobic.

WATERFORD hurling legend Ken McGrath has confirmed he is to close his sports shop in the city.

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A delivery man will be sentenced later for participating in a series of thefts of retail goods on Dublin’s south side.

Detectives were tonight hunting an armed raider who held up a bank with a gun and escaped with a sum of cash.

THE opportunity to become Irish franchisees for fashionable children has been seized by Waterford husband-and-wife team, Trevor and Maeve Cooke, who have opened the first, of what they plan will be a chain of Orchestra outlets, at Georges Street in Waterford City.

A suspect device found in Drogheda this afternoon has turned out to be an elaborate hoax.

DUNNES Stores has made a substantial donation to a good cause after admitting 10 counts of failing to display prices of grocery items at three of its Dublin stores.

The demise of Bewley’s oriental cafés in central Dublin is “like part of Dublin dying”, their emotional owner said today.

IT was cold in Dun Laoghaire on Saturday. Not only was the temperature way down, but there was a biting north-east wind. That was the first thing that made the sight of three men in T-shirts and jeans unusual.

Gardai are appealing for information on a sexual assault which occured at a Nightclub in Drogheda.