A businessman caught with 16,000 UGG-style boots and over 200 loose UGG labels denied breaching the Trademarks Act and said: “I thought about it definitely but I did not do it.”

The daughter of an elderly woman whose life was destroyed after a mugging has criticised a judge for handing down a suspended sentence to the mugger, who has more than 80 previous convictions.

Gardaí in Tuam are appealing for witnesses after a car which is believed to have been involved in criminal activity crashed in the south Mayo/north Galway area on Thursday night.

A MOTORIST who was being given a verbal warning about driving with a mobile phone overreacted to such an extent that it took two gardaí to hold him down and they had to call for back-up.

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WICKLOW GAA chiefs have given up in their bid to switch the venue of their Leinster SFC quarter-final against Westmeath on June 6 to either Carlow or Portlaoise and revealed they will accept the Leinster Council decision to keep the match in Tullamore.

Tommy Barker finds an artist’s ‘quarters’ hidden in a large period house.

BOTH have water views – and both vendors have taken a view to a sale, dropping asking prices by hundreds of thousands of euros.

Tommy Barker says this new hillside property is a slice of old Cork

A major search operation is underway in County Mayo for a mother-of-three who's been missing for three days.

Gardaí are asking for the public's help in locating a missing Mayo woman.

An elderly man has died after he was kicked by a horse in Co Galway yesterday afternoon.

SECURITY sources believe a homemade grenade found in Cork may have been manufactured by criminals.

Four people have been killed in the past 24 hours in separate road accidents in Mayo, Meath, Galway and Dublin.

DON’T call it old fashioned, call it Olde Worlde: that’s the polite way of describing the charms of the Old(e) Coach House, above the River Lee and Lee Road in Cork.

MICK O’RIORDAN and Tom Ryan have been appointed joint caretaker managers of the Dublin senior hurling team pending the appointment of a team manager.

All-Ireland winners Mayo have been rewarded for another awesome year on the football field with 11 nominations for the Ladies All Star awards.

FIREMEN went to the rescue of stranded motorists in flood waters in Dublin yesterday as Met Éireann warned of gale force winds for the next 48 hours.

Gardai have named the man who was killed in a single vehicle road accident in Co Mayo last night.

A young man has died in a road accident in Co Mayo.