A pair of incredibly rare Kinsale silver trefid spoons which Weldons will bring to the National Antiques and Vintage Fair in Limerick.

Compared to other years the New Year in the Irish art and antiques market should hit the ground running.

Gardaí have seized €40,000 worth of ecstasy tablets in Galway city.

THE Leaving Cert results of 2008 were greeted with calls from all concerned bodies for increased emphasis on science subjects in coming years in the interests of our future economic wellbeing.

A 12-year-old boy is dead following an overnight house fire in Galway.

A family escaped injury when a bomb exploded outside their home in Northern Ireland early today.

WHILE I agree with much of what Terry Prone has to say about the reaction of the British media to the wedding of Charles and Camilla (Irish Examiner, April 9), I feel she has been unnecessarily hard on Princess Diana.

ARMED raiders fled empty-handed from the scene of a botched security van robbery outside a Galway shopping centre despite shots being fired in the air and a tussle between the guard and one of the would-be robbers.