Questions remain over Health Minister Dr James Reilly's stake in a private nursing home while in government, Sinn Fén has claimed.

A husband and wife escaped unharmed after being taken hostage by a gang in a tiger-kidnapping raid.

Irish jockey Jamie Kyne, a rising young star in the racing world, was one of two apprentices who died in an arson attack at a block of flats today. his family said tonight.

BARACK OBAMA used the latest technology to get his message across to voters.

A man was shot dead by undercover gardaí today after an elite organised crime squad foiled an armed hold-up.

IT costs as much as €500,000 a year to keep just one young offender in a detention centre, it emerged yesterday.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has mounted a strong defence of the gardaí who killed two post office raiders in Lusk, Co Dublin, last week.

AN 18-YEAR OLD man died when his car struck a ditch in Lusk, Co Dublin on Saturday night.