Des O'Sullivan previews a sale that harks back to Ireland's pubs of days gone by.

Tributes have been paid to an Irish mountaineer who died after his climbing team was caught in bad weather on the southern Russian peak of Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest mountain.

It was an emotional day for one Kildare man as he visited the National Lottery headquarters to collect a record Lotto prize.

In 1985, statues around the country began ‘moving’. The maker of new documentary says the phenomenon was a welcome diversion in tough times, reports Áilin Quinlan

When one of the red lights on a car dashboard starts flashing, any sensible person will stop and check the owner’s manual.

The Ombudsman for Children has said he will watch to ensure commitments made about the education of Syrian refugees in special reception centres around the country are met.

The conservation charity An Taisce has published a list of Ireland's ten most at-risk buildings.

In June 2018, the driver of an articulated truck in Cork was convicted of careless driving when it was determined that he had used both hands to take photos of an accident on the South Ring Road. He was fined €600 and given five penalty points.

Gardaí in Kildare are appealing for witnesses following a fatal crash near Monasterevin this 2.45pm this afternoon.

The Department of Justice has stepped up its plans to provide accommodation and services worth €40m for refugees of the Syrian conflict.

Gardaí are investigating possible links between a gang arrested in Kildare and a spike in burglaries in Cork City.

Gardaí have arrested three men after a shot was fired during a high-speed chase in Co. Kildare last night.

The children of a criminal shot dead in his home told how a man holding a gun entered the kitchen wearing a balaclava before shooting their father dead.

A company has failed in a High Court challenge to a Bord Pleanála refusal to approve composting activities by it on a farm in Co. Kildare.

The Office of the Press Ombudsman says it is powerless to seek redress for a man, who was wrongly identified as a sex offender and a threat to children on the Facebook page of a local news outlet, as the organisation is not a member.

Gardaí have launched a new appeal for information about a 30-year-old man, who has been missing for over a month.

The Government has announced plans to resettle an extra 260 refugees from Lebanon who have been displaced by the Syrian conflict.

Housing problems in Ireland remain the “most significant challenge” to relocating refugees here, according to high-level advice given to the justice minister.

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Gardaí in Kildare are investigating the alleged assault of a young girl in the town last night.

Hurling Development Committee chairman Paudie O’Neill has slammed the “crazy” practice of third-level colleges enlisting high-profile coaches to oversee their Fitzgibbon and Sigerson teams.

Up to 800 Irish families, community groups, and organisations that have offered to accommodate and help migrants will be asked again if they want to host asylum seekers, following the Paris attacks.

A lost drug shipment was suspected of sparking the appalling violence that resulted in a hard-working and loving family “losing everything”.

An eight-year-old girl told gardaí she thought her “daddy was going to die” when he was assaulted by an armed gang during an aggravated burglary in the family home, a court heard yesterday.

A number of people were injured yesterday when a car being observed by gardaí collided with another vehicle near Monasterevin, Co Kildare.

Are the people fleeing crisis migrants, refugees or asylum seekers? And how will Ireland accommodate any new arrivals? Caroline O’Doherty answers the question you may be asking about the refugee crisis.

A liquidator to a Co Kildare hotel has been removed over what a judge said was his “flawed understanding” of his role.

A senior data protection official has described as "shameful and shocking" how a number of credit unions helped private investigators dupe civil servants into handing over citizens’ personal details.

Gardaí investigating the gangland murder of Andy Connors are said to be "quietly confident" of making progress.

Both nuns were from Tipperary and were highly regarded among the leaders of the Presentation Order in this country.

Robert Corbet's murder trial has heard his account to gardaí of dumping the body of Laois nanny Aoife Phelan in a river was a "fiction".

The first Irish equines exported to China under a ground-breaking protocol signed last July arrived last Monday.

The man alleged to have murdered Laois nanny Aoife Phelan told gardaí he "lost it", punched her repeatedly in a "white rage" and dumped her body in a river.

Four men are due in court in Dublin this morning charged in connection with a €5m drug bust.

A struck-off solicitor has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend almost €9m for land now worth €30,000.

A former solicitor from Co Kildare has been jailed for two and a half years for his role in a €9m land purchase fraud.

A struck-off solicitor from Co Kildare has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend €9m for land now worth €30,000.

Sentencing has been delayed by a week in the case of a struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman who defrauded a bank of almost €9m.

A struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman will be sentenced today for defrauding a bank of almost €9m to buy land now worth €30,000.

A struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman will be sentenced shortly for defrauding a bank of almost €9m to buy land now worth €30,000.

Jockey Eddie O’Connell and trainer Jim Lambe’s bid to stop the Turf Club from making any adverse findings against them in respect of allegations they were involved in irregular betting has opened before the High Court.