Two Lithuanian men have been arrested after the discovery of a cannabis grow house in Leitrim.

CELEBRITY chef Neven Maguire was the first boy in his school in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, to do home economics. He is reminiscing about those days with his teacher Mairead McMorrow — “she was an inspiration” — who, in turn, is clearly proud of her famous student.

Failure to serve summons for offence is biggest impediment to securing a conviction

Sixteen new fire stations will be built and another 10 refurbished over the next five years.

Two young entrepreneurs with a scheme to convert cow manure to cash will represent Ireland at a global youth entrepreneurship showcase in New York attended by Chelsea Clinton.

Shane Ward routinely mentions pride, belief and swimming against the odds throughout our conversation.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday praised the actions of gardaí after they confiscated two viable bombs and components parts of two other explosive devices belonging to dissident republicans.

Ulster Bank is to close a further 14 branches in early 2015, putting at risk nearly 40 jobs in the process.

Thirty-seven jobs are to at risk with the closure of a number of Ulster Bank branches.

Donegal native Shane Ward is poised to become the new manager of the Leitrim senior footballers.

The Revenue overstepped its powers of demand for information from a Co Sligo oil supplier in his licence renewal application to sell home and auto fuel and the cheaper Vat-reduced dyed diesel, the High Court decided yesterday.

AbbVie is to manufacture one of the world’s newest blockbuster drugs following an €85m expansion at its plant in Sligo.

It has emerged that the Central Remedial Clinic pays over half a million euro each year to the Mater Hospital to administer a pension fund that does not exist.

Three transition-year students who had the bottle to turn a classic science experiment into a toy have won the top prize at the Student Enterprise Award National Finals in Dublin yesterday.

Prayers were said at Masses throughout Co Leitrim yesterday for a keen gardener, his wife and daughter who died when fire tore through their two-storey home at Lisnabrack, near Manorhamilton.

Post mortems are due to be carried out today on the bodies of the three family members killed in a house fire in Co Leitrim yesterday.

The bodies of a family-of-three who died in a house-fire in Leitrim earlier have been removed from the scene.

Three people who died in a house fire in Co Leitrim overnight are all members of the same family.

Three people - two women and one man - have died in a house fire in Co Leitrim. It is understood all three were related and are believed to be a mother, father and their daughter.

Two explosive devices have been made safe in Dublin and Leitrim.

ALREADY qualified for the 20k walk at next year’s Olympic Games, Robert Heffernan can fight for a medal on two fronts after posting his qualifying standard for the 50k walk at Naumburg.

Supermarket franchise SuperValu today opened its latest Irish store in a move which the company said takes its investment in the country to €25m in 2011 alone.

ACC Bank has secured €6.5 million summary judgment orders against a Co Westmeath couple over unpaid development loans.

FIRE chiefs and forestry agents warned last night that raging fires could continue today and possibly even further into the week as the sun continued to blaze across the north-west.

SUPERVALU, the independent supermarket network, is to create 400 jobs as part of a €25 million investment programme.

SuperValu has announced today that it will add 400 new jobs this year.

Gardai are appealing for the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of a 22-year-old woman who has been missing since last Wednesday.

Gardaí at Manorhamilton are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a 22-year-old woman who has been missing since last Wednesday.

THE Health Service Executive has been accused of engaging in further acts of nepotism after some temporary workers recruited in controversial circumstances last summer have been recently been re-hired.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) spent almost €45 million hiring agency staff to fill vacancies in the first five months of last year, more than three years into its ban on filling permanent posts.

A WEEKEND car crash in Australia has left two Irish communities grieving for two young sons who had been working Down Under.

The N25 Waterford to New Ross Road has reopened - after being closed earlier due to an overturned truck.

A total of 50 new jobs are on the way for Leitrim, it was announced today.

Investigations are underway into the death of a nine-year-old boy in a crash in Co Leitrim.

Gardaí in Leitrim are investigating a serious collision on the N16 Sligo to Enniskillen road.

MARTIN CULLEN’S recent use of an army helicopter to attend a private function raises the appropriateness of the taxpayer paying the costs of politicians attending private functions.

Eight Chinese people were being questioned by the drugs squad today after a cannabis factory was raided.

Rally Ireland kicked off the World Rally Championship in torrential rain, a new a season brings fresh hope but on today's six stages, Sebastien Loeb, the five-time World Rally champion, illustrated, yet again, that he's the one they all have to beat in '09.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl who was struck by a car in front of a number of other children was one of four young people killed in road accidents over the weekend.

A 17-year-old girl died when the car in which she was a passenger was involved in a collision.

A woman has been seriously injured in a car crash in Co Leitrim.

A businessman has joined a council’s mission to get Ireland’s smallest county on the international map.

A MAN has died after the car he was driving lost control and hit a concrete post, bringing to three the number of people killed on Irish roads since Friday.