Dawn Behan owns Woodbine Books in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

Farmers like the McCalls can play a leading role in the battle for Ireland’s threatened bees, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

The General Secretary of the National Bus and Rail Union feels it's only a matter of time before a bus driver is seriously injured in an assault.

It costs €1.19 to bed a 200kg suckler calf for a week, using straw priced at €25 for a 150kg bale. Woodchip costs €1.07, and peat is a fairly trouble-free bedding material which costs only €0.87, according to the latest Teagasc advice.

Kevin Markham looks at the clubs celebrating anniversaries in 2018.

A motorcyclist in his 40s has been killed in County Kildare.

Gardaí in the Naas District have seized an estimated €500,000 worth of cannabis plants in Kilcullen in Co Kildare.

More than €40.5m has been paid by the State over the past seven years to the operators of two toll roads due to lower-than-expected traffic volumes.

Fifty years ago Irish jockey Frankie Shortt sat aboard Aussie at the start of the Aintree Grand National. Little could have prepared him for the next eight minutes and one of the most amazing runnings of the world’s most famous steeplechase.

Nicolas Roche is the new national time-trial champion after storming to a fantastic win in Kilcullen, Co Kildare last night.

A man who uses a wheelchair was left alone on a locked train in Dublin as no staff were available, Ian Bailey has been ordered to pay his full court costs, an Irish Examiner poll has reveals 94% of readers think the Government need to invest in a Limerick - Cork motorway and Villa's rising star Jack Grealish rejects a first senior Republic of Ireland call-up. Here's this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Businessman Tony O’Reilly’s former Irish home in Kilcullen, Co Kildare, was sold for €7.4m last January, a court has been told.

A pensioner who fell on an escalator at Dublin Airport has been awarded €40,000 by a High Court judge.

Equestrian: The annual Tallow point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds, was shrouded in a dense fog yesterday severely restricting visibility.

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

One-time billionaire businessman Tony O’Reilly has had a judgment for €22.6m entered against him at the Commercial Court.

LIMERICK

Around 165,000 homes and businesses remain without power today in the wake of one of the most ferocious Atlantic storms in living memory.

Living the dream, that’s Ian Reilly from Skryne in the county of Meath. A dog-lover all his days, born and bred into the world of greyhound racing, in February 2002 Ian took a plunge, ventured into the precarious career of full-time trainer.

The Government has paid €150,000 plus VAT on outside consultants in relation to plans to erect a €500m electric pylon corridor from Kildare to Cork, via Wexford.

The days of having to put up with dodgy pub food are at an end, as more pubs have earned the right to be named as some of the best places to eat.

The results of an autopsy carried out yesterday by Dr Michael Curtis, the deputy state pathologist, on the partial remains discovered near Killakee Mountain, indicate that the victim was more than likely female.

A married couple in their 50s have appeared in court in Dublin today following several arrests in connection with a spate of recent burglaries in the South East.

A shotgun found at the scene of an apparent murder-suicide was legally held by the man suspected of carrying out the shootings.

Tubridy the calf was the star of a livestock auction that raised over €40,000 for a cancer charity yesterday.

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The Fine Gael TD may have to look at the possibility of standing in Cork North Central next year, but Fianna Fáil will also come under pressure, writes Sean O’Riordan

A man in his 50s has been arrested after a drug seizure in Co Kildare.

The body of missing Naas woman Mary Prendergast has been found, gardaí said.

THE number of people killed on Irish roads in 2011 has risen to 182 following a number of fatal accidents over the holiday period.

One of two Kildare teenagers killed in a crash last weekend will be laid to rest today.

Gardaí are appealing for information following the death of two teenagers in a road crash in Co Kildare yesterday.

Two teenagers have been killed in a two-car collision near Kilcullen in County Kildare.

EVERY summer, tourists pose for photographs in front of Guirke’s old shop in the picturesque village of Hollywood, Co Wicklow.

FORMER Miss Ireland and social columnist Amanda Brunker will no doubt be hitting a few high notes when she joins seven other celebrities taking the reins of GAA teams for the hit RTÉ series Celebrity Bainisteoir.