A 27-year-old man has been left with a number of head injuries after a serious assault in Waterford city.

A man is recovering in hospital after being stabbed in Waterford.

A man has been arrested after a major police operation following the evacuation of a supermarket.

A 'cold case' investigation has solved a 30-year-old murder after a jury returned a guilty verdict against a man for strangling an elderly woman to death before setting her house on fire.

Gardaí have appealed to two women who might have been in the vicinity of a fatal stabbing at the weekend to come forward.

Gardaí are investigating a serious overnight assault in Waterford City.

A group of taxi drivers in Kilkenny are being hailed as heroes after it was revealed their Taxi Watch initiative has saved the lives of 45 people since the end of last year.

A man who was seriously injured in a road accident in Drogheda during the week has died.

A man has gone missing from his home in Co Kilkenny.

A 25-year-old Wexford woman who suffered serious head injuries in a drunken hit-and-run is to receive €1.2m damages in a High Court settlement today.

A man has gone for emergency surgery this morning after being seriously injured in a stabbing incident in his own home in Waterford city.

THREE days before the Twin Towers came down I remember standing in the plaza at the bottom of the buildings with my old wind-up camera.

An 18-year-old man is due in court in the North today charged with the manslaughter of a 28-year-old man in Omagh.

A 38-year old man has appeared before a special sitting of Limerick District Court in connection with a stand-off with armed gardaí.

A 38-year old man is due to appear in court this afternoon in connection with a stand-off with armed gardaí in Limerick.

Three teenagers were being questioned last night about the murder of Monaghan man Jason McGovern.

In the North, PSNI detectives investigating the murder of Monaghan native Jason McGovern have arrested two men.

The death of a teenager on New Year’s Eve is being treated as murder, the PSNI have said.

A murder inquiry has been launched following the death of a teenager in Co. Tyrone.

Investigations are continuing both north and south of the border into the death of 19-year-old Jason McGovern.

Gardaí have said that the post mortem carried out on the body of a 19-year-old man - who was found dead in Co. Monaghan yesterday - shows he died of head injuries.

STUDENTS taking part in discredited Christmas celebrations which led to 13 arrests on Wednesday night availed of special cut-price drink offers in some Waterford city pubs earlier that day.

A MOUTH-WATERING programme of events was unveiled at the weekend for the fifth annual Savour Kilkenny Food Festival which takes place over the October bank holiday weekend.

TWO of Waterford’s hurling greats could be facing their biggest challenge yet when they get relieved of their hair tonight in a wax-athon in aid of cancer sufferers.

Pub, nightclub and leisure group Dinn Ri is creating 130 new jobs in Waterford.

Gardaí in Limerick are appealing for witnesses after a young man fell from the third storey of an apartment block in the city this morning.

* CORKSCREW Winter Wine Fair takes place tomorrow from 1pm to 6pm at the Westbury Hotel just around the corner from the shop on Chatham Street, Dublin 2. Tickets €25, from 01 674 5731 or www.thecorkscrew.ie.

A CALL has been made for more Garda “sub-stations” to be set up in areas of Waterford, following a week of much violence and public disorder in the city.

OPERATION Boulder saw raids on two brothels, businesses, private houses and solicitors’ offices in Cork city on November 20, 2006.

The woman accused of organising prostitution and keeping brothels was found guilty on seven charges of managing brothels at 5.30pm this evening.

A BROTHEL madam had hidden cameras film prostitutes with their clients and monitored them from her home.

The trial of a woman on charges of organising prostitution and keeping brothels opened in Cork this afternoon.

Gardaí in Limerick are appealing for the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of an 18-year-old woman.

Another man and woman were arrested and charged today as part of an ongoing investigation into prostitution in Cork.

Police in the North are investigating an incident in which a man was attacked with a hatchet.

A YOUNG woman was being questioned following the stabbing of two teenage girls in Waterford city.

FOUR men were in Garda custody in Waterford last night after a high-speed car chase in the city on Saturday evening, after which a gun was recovered.

A man was recovering in hospital this evening after a stabbing incident in Waterford City earlier today.

FRIDAY afternoon commuters in Limerick and Waterford faced long delays as taxi drivers in the two cities staged separate protests.

A mob of about 10 people attacked a teenager in Derry last night.