Trish Dromey is wowed by a true one-off expansive architect-designed home on about an acre of garden

An elderly man sustained first-degree burns after he slipped and became stuck between his bed and a radiator.

Unlike most towns in Kerry, Kenmare is bustling even when it’s wet, and is a perfect base to explore the county

Thirty homeowners in a Co Waterford housing estate are facing bills of up to €15,000 each for remedial work to make their homes safe after major fire deficiencies were uncovered.

The State is still not ensuring compliance as building boom nightmare hits southeast, writes Michael Clifford

The magic of modern technology has played a key factor in helping the Dungourney junior hurling panel keep tabs on each other’s extra-curricular work this year.

Three time county champions De La Salle face a relegation play-off to keep their Waterford SHC senior status intact after Fourmilewater dumped them out of the race for the News & Star trophy on Saturday evening at Fraher Field.

The owners of this unmistakably Scandinavian-styled log house near Kill village in Waterford ordered their home from a catalogue found in a doctor’s surgery.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood/... I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference.

Gardaí are investigating an armed robbery at a service station in Co Kildare this morning.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a taxi hijacking in Naas overnight.

A man has been arrested after gardaí stopped a car in Co Kildare last night and seized a handgun and ammunition.

The bishop wanted his computer returned.

MOST of Ireland’s population will have vowed to diet in January. Luckily, the new season of Operation Transformation has begun, but how long after it has ended does the contestants’ new-found fitness last? We spoke to four former OT leaders.

Motor sport enthusiasts were last night mourning the loss of a prominent rally driver who was killed in a crash while taking part in the Ravens Rock Rally in Co Waterford.

FAMILY gatherings can be fraught with nervousness at the best of time.

The Nire booked their place in the last eight of the Waterford senior football championship with a 1-13 to 1-5 victory over 2011 champions Ballinacourty in Saturday’s group stage clash at Fraher Field.

JOINT agents Halley Grace and Margaret Harty of Harty and Co are selling a tillage, grazing and forestry farm at Carrickaready, Kill, Co Waterford.

Heavy rain has significantly disrupted transport this evening, particularly in the Leinster region.

Two men appeared in court today charged in connection with the seizure of a €2.4m haul of heroin.

Four men have appeared in court following an arms find in Co. Kildare over the weekend.

A 4,000 tonne delivery of salt for treating roads is due to arrive in Cork this evening.

Both Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus have said some routes are facing curtailments and diversions because of the continuing hazards of compacted snow and ice.

MORE than 20 top holstein friesians from all over Ireland are expected to be shortlisted to compete for the Baileys Irish Champion Cow title at Virginia Show in Co Cavan on July 31.

The ESB has issued a flood warning for towns in Co Kildare that lie on the banks of the River Liffey including Ballymore Eustace, Kilcullen, Newbridge, Clane, Celbridge and Leixlip.

THE country’s leading bloodstock auctioneers Goffs has reported tough trading conditions in the year to the end of March 2009.

A 17-year-old boy arrested over a car hi-jacking of a retired garda, which was likened by judge to a scene from the hit American hit TV programme 'The Wire', was remanded on continuing bail today.

A Kildare man and his friend who beat up a stranger and kicked him in the head, leaving him unconscious, after "slagging" off his name have been sentenced to 18 months and two years respectively.

BALLYDUFF UPPER and Abbeyside square off tomorrow in the Waterford SHC semi-final replay at Fraher Field, Dungarvan (2pm).

REIGNING Waterford senior football champions Ballinacourty advanced impressively into the quarter-finals when they overwhelmed Kilrossanty 3-14 to 0-7 at Bohadoon in one of six games played over the weekend.

DESPITE cuts in public spending, up to 9,000 pupils have been promised new classrooms as part of a school building and refurbishment programme, which is to get under way by the end of the year.

IT WAS a long road that led Peter Kirwan back to his starting point. As a youngster in Kill, near Kilmeaden in Waterford, his obsession with Australian Rules brought him to Cranbourne, a feeder club for AFL side Melbourne.

A Kildare man and his friend who beat up a stranger and kicked him in the head leaving him unconscious after "slagging" off his name have been remanded on bail pending sentence later.

One of Ireland's major drug trafficking gangs was dealt a devastating blow today as detectives seized an €11m cannabis haul.

PAUL O’SHEA is 10 points behind leader Clem McMahon in the Atec Premier Series with only two rounds remaining and is surprised to be there.

MONAGHAN'S Clem McMahon snatched Blessington's big Premier Series Grand Prix at Kill International in Co. Kildare today with a superb double clear on May Scott's 'Cobold'.

THERE was some competitive fare on offer at the first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting at Fort Arthur yesterday and Claras Chesnut really brought the meeting to life for many by making every post a winning one in the featured four-mile open.

A €233m road scheme to ease traffic congestion for more than 60,000 motorists a day has been officially opened.

A SEASIDE town fears it’s going to become a no-go area this summer if the scourge of ‘boy racers’ continues.

The annual competition to find Ireland’s best butchers’ sausages is underway with regional competitions in Mallow, Nenagh, Carrick-on-Suir and Kill, Co Kildare.

NFL and All-Ireland champions Kerry must make their competitive debut of 2005 tomorrow without the services of skipper Declan O’Sullivan.

Gardaí in Co Kildare are investigating an overnight break-in at the offices of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland in the town of Kill.