It took grit and a relentless training regimen for the Beirnes to win Ireland’s Fittest Family, says Áilín Quinlan.

Gardaí have launched a murder investigation following the disappearance of a man in the West of Ireland six years ago.

Five well-known characters will be shedding pounds and maybe a few tears in the first series of Celebrity Operation Transformation.

A hotel waitress who injured her hand after a glass jug she was filling shattered has been awarded €500,000 by the High Court. Mr Justice Kevin Cross found Sophie Caillaud had suffered a very significant injury which had altered her life.

From worst behaved to best dressed — you get all sorts flocking to Cheltenham.

A waitress who suffered a hand injury after she claimed a glass jug she was filling shattered has sued the luxury Lough Rynn Hotel in Leitrim.

Galway 0-13 Leitrim 1-09: Galway held off a late Leitrim challenge to claim a second FBD League win at Mohill.

Galway and Mayo kept their unbeaten starts to 2015 intact, while NUIG and Sligo also recorded wins in the FBD League this afternoon.

New Galway football manager Kevin Walsh said he will wait until he gets to know the squad better before deciding on who will captain them in 2015.

There should be increased sentences for those who viciously assault gardaí, and extra supports to help officers who are so stressed by their jobs they consider suicide.

Jim Nolan tells Marjorie Brennan how his play is inspired by the triumph of the human spirit in the face of fundamentalist hysteria.

A town the same size as Tralee has effectively been wiped out because of the failure of motorists to ensure each other’s safety on Irish roads.

Crimestoppers is launching an appeal for information about a man who has been missing from Leitrim for more than 18 months.

Living in a house with parents that were born and bred in Co Leitrim means that Mayo midfielder, Barry Moran, is more aware than most of what’s at stake in Sunday’s Connacht SFC semi-final in Castlebar.

A look out the front-room window explains a lot.

All comics are big children.

ONE of the last bastions of male domination will crumble this weekend as women make history and join the usually all-male entry at the annual all-Ireland Culchie Festival.

Gardaí in Leitrim say they have concerns for the welfare for a 48-year-old man missing from his home for over two weeks.

Irish rowing has received a significant boost with the approval of an international standard rowing facility on Lough Rinn, near Mohill in south Leitrim.

A TALENTED young GAA star died of severe brain damage following an accidental collision on the pitch when his head collided with the knee of another player, an inquest has heard.

The High Court has approved a settlement of €385,000 to the family of a 65-year-old man who was pierced through the heart during a post-operative procedure at the Blackrock Clinic.

Irish rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll and actress Amy Huberman will tie the knot in Leitrim today.

IRISH rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll is used to high- pressure encounters at this stage but today promises to be a whole new ball game as he ties the knot with his fiancee, actress and author Amy Huberman.

Leitrim GAA footballer Philip McGuiness has been laid to rest.

SCHOOL inspectors have not outlined any concerns about more than 40 special needs assistant (SNA) posts at more than a dozen schools visited in the last 15 months.

LEITRIM is the newest playground for holiday home buyers and retirees — even President McAleese has a house there.

A motorcyclist in his 30s has died following a road accident in Co Leitrim last night.

FROM bantam hens to cooks, all-Ireland champions of all kinds emerged at the agricultural shows in August and September.

THE winner of the non-pedigree suckler cow and calf All Ireland championship at Mohill Show in Co Leitrim last Sunday was shown by Derry and Sharon Rothwell, Greenhall, Tinahely, Co Wicklow, with a qualifier from Ossory Show. Garret McGuinness, Drogheda, took the reserve honours.

The man who was stabbed to death in the Dublin suburb of Tallaght last week is to be laid to rest later today.

PARENTS of a seven-year-old school boy last night held a vigil at his bedside in Beaumont Hospital where he was being treated for serious head injuries after falling from the emergency exit door of a schoolbus.

A seven-year-old boy was in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital today after falling from a school bus in Co Leitrim.

WEST CORK breeder and exhibitor Denis Dullea, Killountain, Bandon, made his long journey to the Roscommon Show worthwhile last weekend.

Staff at a nursing home in Co Leitrim have announced plans to hold a month-long workplace protest against what they say are low staffing levels.

A GARDA sergeant (now an inspector) and the State were sued in the High Court yesterday by a 25-year-old carpenter who claimed the sergeant assaulted him six years ago in a Co Leitrim bar, refused to give an explanation and later brought a malicious prosecution which was dismissed by a District Judge.

SIPTU yesterday urged Teagasc to pull back from its plan to close its 76-acre research farm at Ballinamore in Co Leitrim.

Gardai have launched an investigation following the death of a 57-year-old woman in Co Leitrim.

The Vintners Federation of Ireland has criticised government plans to de-regulate the industry and claims many towns actually have too many pubs.