For the past six months, since pillars collapsed at a mine and caused subsidence and created sinkholes, the people of Drumgossatt have had to use a narrow, one-way boreen to go to work, to school, and to shops. They are not convinced their main access road will reopen anytime soon, says Caroline O’Doherty.

Forestry agency Coillte have given details of the costs of cleaning up just one illegal dump in Kingscourt, Co Cavan.

The State’s forestry service Coillte will have to spend €100,000 clearing up 600 tonnes of industrial and domestic waste dumped on two sites in Kingscourt, on the Cavan-Meath border recently.

Despite his active youth, non-smoker David Crosbie needed a double lung transplant. It inspired him to start running marathons, writes Fergus O’Donoghue

They are believed to have contained over €200,000 having been filled in anticipation of the Easter bank holiday weekend.

Pubs in a Meath village have agreed to stay closed on Good Friday for the second year to mark a 'long-standing tradition'.

Nearly 100 children were evacuated from their classrooms yesterday when a sinkhole opened up on the grounds of their primary school.

Last week was an extraordinary one for Irish sport. The rugby Grand Slam and Rory McIlroy winning in America followed a Cheltenham Festival where the Irish dominated the English in race after race, writes Paul Rouse.

"However after the cull, I then realised that there were 39 people who, despite being in regular contact with, I had never met."

A Luas passenger who choked on a Mars Bar and later died had a ‘heart of gold’ according to his family. David O’Reilly (49) of Kingscourt, Co Cavan stepped off the Luas at Abbey Street and collapsed on October 29 2015.

A quick glance around the club dressing-rooms of Cavan tells Micheal Lyng all he needs to know about the value of what’s on offer in Sunday’s AIB Ulster club SFC final.

A legal challenge has been mounted against a decision by An Bord Pleanála that a high-voltage underground cable connecting a €21m windfarm in Cavan to the national gird is an exempted development.

A couple remain in hospital after being attacked by a gang of masked men at their home near Kingscourt, Co Cavan on Thursday.

A man and woman are in hospital following an aggravated burglary in Kingscourt, Co Cavan last night.

THE GARDENS are just coming into their own at Kingscourt, a detached bungalow amid the blossoms, on a fabulous acre along Cork’s Maryborough Hill, beyond Douglas.

A man has been stabbed on the street in Dublin.

One person has been killed in a crash in County Meath overnight.

A County Cavan bar has been convicted of selling counterfeit vodka, following an investigation by the Food Safety Authority.

Shares in Kingspan jumped more than 3% yesterday on the back of the Cavan-based building materials group spending over €60m on a strategic acquisition in the US.

Workers at building materials firm Kingspan’s flagship Irish plant at Kingscourt, Co Cavan, are in line to receive their first pay increase in seven years.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe made complaints about 16 individual incidents relating to failures by gardaí to investigate reported crimes, internal matters including harassment of officers, and allegations of misconduct by individual members of the force. Caroline O’Doherty and Cormac O’Keeffe report on Seán Guerin’s examination of the matters

The former Justice Minister, Alan Shatter, failed in his duties to investigate complaints made by the garda whistle-blower Maurice McCabe, according to a damning report which recommends an independent examination into a range of allegations of garda malpractice.

A civil engineer who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has been jailed for three years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

When a taxi driver and her female passenger fell victim to a terrifying ordeal, nothing in the way of investigating a crime was undertaken by gardaí, says Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

Tyrone, Donegal, Monaghan, Derry, Antrim and Cavan were victorious in the Power NI Dr. McKenna Cup in Ulster this afternoon.

The Would Be’s are a cautionary tale for young musicians everywhere.

A civil engineer from Cavan who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has had his five year suspended sentence overturned for being too lenient.

The GAA have confirmed the make-up of its Football 'Stars of the 1980s' team which will be honoured on All-Ireland SFC final day on Sunday, September 22 when Dublin meet Mayo at Croke Park.

It has been quite a few days for Cavan man Paul Brady, who last night thrilled the CityWest crowd by winning his fourth men's singles title in-a-row at the World Handball Championships.

Twenty-five former workers of the Lagan Brick Company in Cavan are due to meet their former bosses later for talks at the Labour Court.

Investigations are continuing in Co. Cavan into a bank robbery which occurred in Kingscourt yesterday evening.

Gardaí are appealing for information following a bank robbery in Co Cavan.

An armed gang were preparing to ram raid a bank in a Co Cavan town with a telegraph pole atop a van before they realised the bank was still open for business.

Gardaí are looking for an armed gang following a bank robbery in County Cavan this evening.

Lagan Brick workers will take part in a May Day march in Belfast this afternoon.

Workers at Lagan Brick in Co Cavan marked the hundredth day of a dispute with their employer today.

Workers at the Lagan Brick plant in Kingscourt in Cavan have voted to take strike action.

Talks will reconvene at the Labour Relations Commission today between management and workers at Lagan Brick in Co Cavan.

Former workers at a building materials company in Co Cavan have agreed to attend talks at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) this Friday.

A drunk Cavan man who drove 7kms in the wrong direction down a dual carriage and killed a man returning from his fiancée’s birthday party has avoided jail.

Saint-Gobain Construction Products has announced an investment of €250,000 to upskill and train construction workers to meet the increased consumer demand for renovations and construction in the retrofit market.