Update 6.13pm, September 28: Lauren Murphy has been found safe and well this evening.

With huge tracts of this constituency hived off into the new Roscommon-Galway region, a number of TDs have seen their home bases ripped asunder.

Two people died in the Republic and three in Tyrone in separate road crashes at the weekend.

The draw for the 2015 Irish Laurels was made yesterday afternoon at Curraheen Park and, despite concerns of a lack of numbers, management have brought together 66 greyhounds for Saturday night’s opening round.

Des O’Sullivan reports on an unusual contents’ sale in Roscommon.

Actress Lindsay Lohan’s Irish ancestry could prove a worthwhile study for genealogists with reported family links to Cork and Galway.

As Lohan’s Oprah special starts in the US, Louise Roseingrave traces the wildchild’s strong Irish links

ESB Networks is working to restore power to over 70,000 customers whose electricity supplies were disrupted as a result of last night’s storms.

At least 3,000 visitors are expected to flock to a tiny West Cork village this week.

An interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to a west of Ireland family bakery business employing 82 people on the basis of an independent accountant’s view that it has a reasonable prospect of survival with expected investment of €1m.

An interim examiner has been appointed to Brogan's Bakery in Glenamaddy, Co Galway.

While Kilkenny fans are used to All-Ireland build-ups, it’s been a while for long-suffering Galway fans.

There is something very magical about the Derby double. On Saturday night at Shelbourne Park the 81st Irish Derby final will be run and in that time only one greyhound has managed to win it more than once.

DESPITE the gloomy economic climate, it has been a tremendous year for greyhound racing.

Gardaí have said the post-mortem results on the body of Juris Buls which was found in wooded area near Glenamaddy, Co. Galway, on Saturday are not being released for "operational reasons".

A 35-YEAR-OLD man has been remanded in custody in relation to the disappearance of a Latvian man in Galway.

A post mortem is taking place on the body of a man found in a wooded area in Glenamaddy, Co. Galway yesterday evening.

A 35-year-old man has appeared in court in Galway charged in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of Juris Buls.

A 35-year-old man is due to appear before a special sitting of Tuam District Court in the next hour, charged in connection with the disappearance of Juris Buls.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Juris Buls have found a body approximately 10km out the Glenamaddy to Creggs Road in the townsland of Gortnadeeve East.

Gardaí in Tuam investigating the disappearance of 30-year-old Latvian man Juris Buls have arrested a male and a female in Glenamaddy, Co Galway yesterday, it has emerged.

Gardaí in Co Galway are renewing their appeal for information about a missing Latvian man.

Gardaí in Co. Galway are renewing their appeal for information about a missing Latvian man.

Gardaí in Galway are seeking the public's help in locating missing Latvian man Juris Buls.

THE sister of a 33-year-old Co Galway woman who has been missing for ten days has made an emotional appeal in a bid to trace her last known movements.

A family-run bakery struck a big dough deal today to supply muffins to a major supermarket chain.

A 45-year-old man will appear in court in Co Roscommon later today in connection with the death of Frank Fahy in Galway yesterday morning.

Gardaí in Co Galway are continuing to question a 45-year-old man following the death of another man during an altercation in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Tributes were tonight paid to a hard working young man murdered in a knife attack during an early morning brawl outside a pub.

A man has been killed in a road accident in Co Galway last night.

THE Mounties always get their man, as the saying goes. Now they are preparing to impart some of their policing knowledge to the gardaí as part of a training pact.

STUDENT PASS, who won the stake last year, heads a good-class entry for the Guinness Trophy at Curraheen Park, the draw for which was made at Guinness House, Cork yesterday by Michael Lyons, Southern Sales Manager, Diageo.

A GALWAY community is facing transport chaos as more than 30 places on a school bus have been lost for the coming term.

Roches Stores is to pull out of supermarket trading to focus solely on the non-food side of its business, the group announced today.

THE Meath County Board confirmed they will hold an election for the position of senior football manager.

A DISTRICT court judge who sparked controversy over his remark that shopping centres might ban ‘coloured people’ has been defended as exceptionally hard-working.

ST MALACHY’S, Castlewellan of Down were named the AIB Club of the Year for 2002 in Croke Park yesterday.

The GAA and sponsors AIB today announced the 32 'Club of the Year' winners from around the country.