The wife of an Irish mountaineer who tragically died on Europe’s highest mountain has said she has lost her “best friend”.

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.

A show fronted by an Irish boy-band has "bizarrely" made it to the final of Germany's Got Talent by singing in the Irish language.

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.

Ten puppies have been rescued after being found in cardboard boxes.

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.

A man has been charged with attempted murder following a shooting in Dublin earlier this 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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Operation Mayday aims to help refugees settle in their new surroundings in Ireland, writes Joe Leogue.

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.

A family of 10 fleeing Syria will be the first group of refugees relocated to Ireland under the current EU plans to address the migration crisis.

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.

The first people coming to Ireland under the Government’s new refugee action plan will not move into local communities until December at the earliest.

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.