Ireland’s towns are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn, with poverty rates double that in the cities.

Four pilgrimage trails are to be opened in Munster in an attempt to lure Irish people away from the trek along the Camino of St James in Spain and generate money for our rural communities.

I was a fairly outgoing child, I suppose, but a career in comedy was never really on the cards.

LOCAL opponents of the Corrib Gas project in Co Mayo have rejected a Shell Ireland offer to discuss changes to the route of a controversial onshore pipeline while a leading Shell-to-Sea activist remains in jail.

THE recent announcement by An Bord Pleanála of the dangers of the proposed Corrib gas pipeline has drawn attention to very serious issues, and not before time.

With the Shell protests escalating, both sides agree the reappearance of the Solitaire vessel will be decisive, writes Scott Millar.

A RISE in the number of cattle entries at shows so far this season continued at Clonakilty where 200 animals from the main breeds were entered for various classes.

A 41-year-old Scottish man was sentenced to life for the murder of an English new-age traveller five years ago at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 41-year-old man accused of murder allegedly told gardaí "I’m sorry, it got out of hand, it was a clash of egos" regarding a fatal incident at a new age traveller encampment, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

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Gardaí in Tipperary have named the woman who died when she was hit by a lorry yesterday.

A COUNTY councillor spoke yesterday about how he came across a horrific head-on crash which claimed the lives of two people.

Two of four wounds inflicted on a man during a fight over a minor traffic

A 38-year-old Scottish man today pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of another man in County Tipperary in 1999.