A teenager has been killed in a car crash in Co Galway.

Two best friends who played GAA football together were among four young women killed in a tragic car crash after a day out shopping, it emerged tonight.

Power has been restored to two and a half thousand ESB customers in Connemara who had been left without electricity after lightening strike at a power station.

A BABYSITTER and three young children had a lucky escape when lightning struck the roof of their house and set it on fire.

A man who raped and murdered a schoolgirl and left her to drown on a remote Connemara beach, today failed in his bid to have an appeal against his conviction heard by the Supreme Court.

The smoking ban should be reconsidered as it is leading to despair among some people, the Government was told today.

The Irish soldier who was accidentally shot dead in East Timor last week will be buried in Co Galway with full military honours today.

The remains of Army Private Peadar O'Flaithearta are expected to arrive in Galway airport at lunchtime on Sunday.

An Irish soldier who died after an apparent accidental shooting in East Timor has been named as 21-year-old Private Peadar Flaherty.

The Government is launching an intensive new bid to boost coastal-linked tourism activities in an area of Connemara.