A Dublin youth, who stole a car from a petrol station, has been given a six-month sentence after his parents begged for him to sent to a detention centre.

The developer behind Dublin’s Convention Centre and the head of Chadwick’s hardware are among those who have made personal donations to politicians.

A man has died after an apparent fall from a horse-drawn cart in Co Wicklow last night.

A man, who was arrested in connection with an operation targeting stolen cars, has been released without charge.

Gardaí are hunting two men who robbed a post office in Co. Wicklow this morning.

Four people have been arrested and over €700,000 worth of drugs has been found in two separate drug seizures.

THE majority of TDs questioned for an Irish Examiner survey said they never sought nor had penalty points cancelled from their driving records.

HOW is your posture — apparently the majority of people are not standing correctly, and this only worsens with age, as we begin to slouch and our back begins to curve. If you want to correct your posture, and learn to stand tall, then pilates may be the answer for you.

A gorse fire has broken out tonight on the Little Sugar Loaf Mountain near Kilmacanogue in Co Wicklow.

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

AVOCA is the bubble not even the yummy mummy of all recessions could burst.

A PLASTIC surgeon is to be removed from the medical register after being found guilty of professional misconduct in relation to the care he gave a woman following breast augmentation surgery.

FOOD fashionistas are going green – eating locally grown food and reducing their carbon footprint, Ireland’s leading food critic has claimed.

Icy conditions are causing havoc for motorists using the N11 Dublin/Wicklow road.

BRIAN KENNEALLY has recovered from his third win in the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan, but has not yet decided if he will contest the Shay Elliott Memorial in Bray next Sunday when he could opt for the big race down south, the Bill Hyland Memorial in Clonmel.

THE Supreme Court has ruled a binding contract exists under which a building contractor was to be paid a maximum €15.3 million to construct a housing scheme in Co Wicklow.

DRIVERS on the road through Kilmacanogue thought they were going bananas.

EVA WARREN was so unhappy with her figure that her father agreed to pay half the price of a breast augmentation procedure.

FAMILIES of the Bray firefighters who lost their lives two weeks ago have organised a weekend march to protest against the lack of full-time fire services in towns throughout Ireland.

Two busloads of schoolchildren escaped serious injury yesterday when the coaches they were travelling in collided on the road between Roundwood and Kilmacanogue in Co Wicklow.

Eddie Cassidy and Tom Shiel

Gardaí in Co Wicklow are reportedly working on the assumption that the man whose body was found in the Glen of the Downs on Tuesday night was the victim of a murder.

An independent inquiry was ordered today into the escalation in price of a major road-building project in Co Wicklow.

Work on a gas pipeline has uncovered the remains of a house dating back to 2,000 BC.