Armed detectives, bomb disposal teams and dog handlers are searching land near the border for a second day after a dissident republican arms dump was uncovered.

Counties Cork and Down have both secured six listings in the 2015 Michelin ‘Eating Out In Pubs’ guide.

Last week, Adrian Donohoe should have been celebrating his birthday, surrounded by his wife Caroline and two children Amy and Niall.

TWO of Ireland’s ancient clans — the FitzGeralds and the Kennedys — gave to the world the 35th president of the US, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

A Dublin doorman has been jailed for three years for stealing almost €60,000 from Woodies DIY during an “inside job” robbery.

The wife of a mine worker killed in an underground rockfall wept yesterday as she thanked the emergency services for ensuring her husband’s remains were recovered from the mine.

Prayers are being said at Masses across Ireland today for murdered police officer Adrian Donohoe.

A Garda officer shot dead during a robbery in Co Louth was part of a dedicated police family – his widow, two brothers and extended family are also members of the Gardaí.

Garda detective Adrian Donohoe, who was shot dead during a credit-union robbery last night, was dedicated, diligent and hugely popular, senior officers said today.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described the fatal shooting of a Garda detective in Co Louth as "cold-blooded violence", while Justice Minister Alan Shatter called it a "callous and barbaric event" .

Tributes have poured in for a Garda detective who was shot dead in Co Louth last night in a botched hold-up.

The IHFA Open Day takes place on Wednesday June 20 on the farm of Tom and Maura Murphy at Swiftsheath, Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny.

THE Fermanagh County Board’s management committee meet for a second time in three days tonight as the GAA and GPA hope their intervention can help resolve the impasse involving 10 footballers.

A Louth man accused of staging a robbery on his employers has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

WITH its whitewashed facade and country setting, Fitzpatricks bar and restaurant in Co Louth is the ‘whole’ Irish experience.

Gardaí in Co Louth have questioned a man in connection with a fatal crash on the Dundalk to Carlingford road over the weekend.

Gardaí have named the two men killed in this morning's car crash in Co Louth.

The man who died in yesterday's road accident in County Louth has been named as Yolek Whitcombe from Rampark, Jenkinstown in Louth.

Five overnight fatalities has brought to seven the total number of deaths on the roads North and South of the border in the past 24 hours.

Concern is growing over wild sheep that have been grazing on the Cooley Mountains.

The Taoiseach has corrected the information regarding the location of the foot-and-mouth outbreaks within the Republic.

The Taoiseach annnounced to the Dáil this morning that foot-and-mouth disease had spread to the Republic.

Ireland's farmers this morning await news of tests on samples taken from a sheep that showed symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease.