More than 700 jobs are to be created in Dublin, Kildare, Galway, and Longford as the result of four separate announcements yesterday.

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A Kildare man has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the violent sexual attack on a young woman who took her own life a year later.

Sharon Hennessy and her family smiled through tears as they left court 13 of the Criminal Courts of Justice for the last time.

A Kildare man has been sentenced to seven and a half years for the violent sexual attack on a young woman who took her own life a year later.

Ireland’s love of whiskey and stout is well established. What is less known, perhaps, is that the country has a long association with the grape, too, longer than the arrival of Blue Nun on our shelves a few decades ago.

Cannibis plants with a value of up to €100,000 have been discovered in a grow house in Co Kildare.

Two men have appeared in court in Kildare charged with theft and fraud offences amounting to over €8.8m.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating two separate abductions in Limerick.

GARDAÍ have advised motorists going to the National Ploughing Championships in Athy, Co Kildare, not to be complacent about their travel plans.

AS a rule, heads of State don’t really get to have a holiday when performing official duties overseas.

Two people have been killed in separate road crashes in Co. Kildare.

THE last time Wexford reached the All-Ireland senior camogie final 25-year-old Ferns native Josie Dwyer was preparing for a different trip to Croke Park – the 2007 Ladies All-Ireland Intermediate football final which the girls in purple and gold would eventually lose to Leitrim.

“ROSES there for the blessing of the relics. Anyone for the roses?”

PUBLICANS say it has been a difficult year. But is it really that grim for publicans?

One person has been injured after a tree fell onto a car in Co Kildare this evening.

A RISING star of Irish horse racing died in Australia yesterday with his mother at his side.

Three Brazilian men tonight appeared in court charged in connection with the death of a man found on a roadside in Kildare Town early on Saturday morning.

UP-AND-COMING jump jockey Kieran Kelly was riding a horse with a reputation for falling when he received fatal injuries after his mount stumbled in a steeplechase, an inquest heard yesterday.

A 25-year-old jump jockey was riding a horse with a reputation for falling when he received fatal injuries after his mount stumbled in a steeplechase, an inquest heard today.

Kildare gardaí have appealed for help in trying to trace a 20-year-old man who has been missing since last Monday.

One person has died in an overnight road accident in Co Kildare.

Gardai are today seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a woman missing from Co Kildare.