Gardaí are investigating if the attempted murder last Sunday of a leading drug figure on Dublin’s northside was carried out by a young southside gang.

IF YOU go for a walk on the beach in Laytown, Co Meath, this summer do not be surprised to find a man and his 14-feet-long python there too.

SIPTU has written to the manager of the Creevelea Nursing Home in Laytown, Co Meath, requesting an urgent meeting to discuss the closure of the facility and staff redundancies.

Gardaí and members of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation have recovered €1m worth of stolen plant machinery.

IT was a question of ‘eyes right’ as 20 potential Non-Commissioned Officers took centre stage in the parade ground at Haulbowline naval base for a passing out ceremony yesterday.

THEY’RE in neighbouring counties, but the best and worst of the Tidy Towns entrants are poles apart when it comes to impressing the judges.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) has reduced the prison sentence from eight years to six imposed on Kelly Noble for the stabbing to death of a young mother-of-two.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the eight-year prison sentence imposed on Kelly Noble for the stabbing to death of a young mother of two outside a supermarket by two years.

Kelly Noble, the 21-year-old mother of two who stabbed another young mother of two to death outside a supermarket has been jailed for 10 years for her manslaughter.

The jury in the trial of Kelly Noble, a young woman accused of murdering a teenage mother-of-two outside a supermarket in Co Meath last year was sent to a hotel tonight after failing to reach a

The closing stages have been reached at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Kelly Noble, a young woman accused of murdering a teenage mother of two outside a supermarket in Co Meath last year.

A woman on trial for murdering a teenage mother-of-two by stabbing her in the chest outside a supermarket, told gardaí in an interview that she regretted the killing and wished she could turn back the clock.

A childminder has told a murder trial jury how she brought a kitchen knife in a child’s schoolbag to the scene of a fatal stabbing, after receiving a phone call from the accused.

A teenage mother-of-two, who was stabbed to death outside a supermarket, was seen arguing with the woman accused of her murder and repeatedly asked her why she had kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant with her three-year-old son, a witness has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 20-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of teenage mother-of-two Emma McLoughlin (aged 19) who was stabbed to death in Laytown, Co Meath last year.

The pensioner killed after being hit by a car in Laytown, Co Meath on Saturday night has been named.

TWENTY-SEVEN fewer people died on Ireland’s roads this year, but road safety groups have warned that more needs to be done to further reduce the number of fatalities.

Minister for Education Mary Hanafin has been faced protests from angry parents during a visit to a school in Drogheda, Co Louth, today.

HER chair will be empty in the exam hall but the memories 17-year-old Teresa Norris left behind are rich and full.

HOW a woman died after waiting 12 hours for medical help is to be the subject of a special Health Service Executive (HSE) inquiry.

A chef who was convicted of stabbing his partner to death with a steak knife was found hanging in a locked cell in Arbour Hill prison by his shoelaces, an inquest heard tonight.

VERA TIGHE started smoking when she was 12 years of age because all the film stars did it.

Gardai are today searching for a gang thought to have burgled 15 houses in the space of just a few hours.