Today, April 28

An Irish digital artist has won the admiration of reality star and fashionista Kim Kardashian.

ACC Bank is not entitled to take possession of a couple’s home which was part of a failed spa and hotel development, the High Court has ruled.

Businessman Don Tidey has paid tribute to a fallen soldier who made the “supreme sacrifice” while assisting in his rescue from a gang of Provisional IRA kidnappers almost 30 years ago.

SCHOOLS may lose special teaching hours next autumn, it has been claimed.

The family of a woman who died from cancer who claimed that she was wrongly diagnosed at two hospitals in the Midlands as suffering from depression have settled their High Court action against the HSE for €65,000.

A man was remanded in custody today accused of killing a popular publican.

A 22-month-old boy has died at Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin today following a traffic accident in Moate, Co Westmeath on Saturday last.

A commercial premises in Moate, Co Westmeath, has been extensively damaged by an overnight fire.

ARMY representatives are calling for 40-year mandatory sentences for the murder of defence force members as concern mounts over the growth in armed political splinter groups and gangs.

A retired Garda ballistics expert told the Don Tidey kidnap trial today that he concluded that gunfire from two automatic weapons had been fired in the direction of a recruit garda and soldier who were killed when the supermarket executive was rescued almost twenty five years ago.

THERE are calls for mandatory heart screening of all schoolchildren after four young boys died playing sports in one week.

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.

FOUR people died in weekend road accidents, bringing the number killed on Irish roads so far this year to 253.

A major garda hunt is on the way across the midlands for a man who abducted an eight-year-old girl near her home in Moate, Co Westmeath yesterday.

Gardai are trying to establish the motive behind the abduction of an eight-year-old schoolgirl near Moate, Co Westmeath, earlier today.

A garda investigation has been launched into the abduction of a nine-year-old girl in Knockdowney, Moate, Co Westmeath.