A woman has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the overturning of a €493,000 damages award to her by a High Court jury after it found a relative sexually assaulted her when she was a child.

A teacher who was injured when a wing mirror on a van hit her as she was out jogging near her home has been awarded €134,000 by the High Court.

Accumulated profits at Treaty Media, the company owned by One Direction’s Niall Horan, amounted to €7.75m as of the end of last September, latest accounts show.

Two landlords have received criminal convictions and more than €7,000 in fines for failing to register their rental properties.

Texting and internet use are causing problems in marriages, according to research from Accord, the Catholic Marriage Care Service.

A €493,000 award to a woman who claimed she was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a relative has been overturned by the Court of Appeal because of delay in bringing the action.

A man whose wife is fighting an extremely rare, life-threatening disease has appealed to the public to help her secure a drug that could turn her life around.

For a few moments yesterday, a little part of West Cork was transported to the cosmos.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton have batted away growing claims of a November election, insisting it is just speculation and that whoever is doing it “needs to stop”.

Mike Garry has had a long and storied career, and brings it to a festival in Cork

Peter Dowdall reports on the wonders that await those who encounter the ‘Jealous Wall’ at Belvedere House.

Credit unions will aim to have issued 500,000 of their new debit cards within the next five years to make the project viable, according to the head of the company rolling out the project.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has called for a historic realignment of Irish politics to pave the way for an anti-austerity Syriza-style government here after the next general election.

A drug addict who targeted and robbed a man with the mental age of a 12-year-old has been jailed for four years.

Met Eireann says 2014 was wet, warm and sunny across the country with hurricane force winds recorded early in the year.

Residents of Sherkin Island, just across from the fishing village of Baltimore in West Cork, enjoyed the warmest weather in the country last month.

A local election candidate caught up in a littering row after a woman

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A brother and sister charged with the murder of 63-year-old Thomas Horan, who was found dead in his sheltered accommodation apartment in Dublin, were further remanded in custody today.

A brother and sister made no reply when they were charged with the murder of 63-year-old Thomas Horan, who was found dead in his sheltered accommodation in Dublin on Monday.

Two people were arrested yesterday in relation to the murder of a man at a sheltered housing unit for the elderly in Dublin on Monday.

Operation Transformation asked applicants why they wanted to be on the show. Some of the answers were very revealing:

About 7,000 homes and businesses are without power after storm-force winds battered the country.

Up to 7,000 homes are still without power this morning following storms around the country yesterday.

ESB technicians are still working to restore power to up to 12,000 homes still without power because of storm force winds.

More than 500 people unhappy with their weight applied to become an Operation Transformation leader.

New rules to take some of the glamour out of smoking were passed by the European Parliament, but the industry’s massive lobbying campaign won important concessions.

Two men were in custody last night after Limerick gardaí seized a large haul of cocaine, a handgun, and a significant stash of ammunition and cash.

Fleur De Nuit, trained in Galway by John Bleahen, turned over Aidan O’Brien’s hot pot, Marchese Marconi, in the Croome House Stud Handicap at Listowel yesterday.

A TG4 documentary has claimed that the founder of one of this country’s biggest Irish colleges could be an “Irish Jimmy Savile” and may have abused dozens of victims.

The owner of an Offaly bus hire company has pleaded guilty to failing to maintain a school bus that was later involved in a fatal crash.

A vehicle-testing firm and the partners of a bus hire company have gone on trial following a school bus crash in Offaly, in which a 15-year-old student died.

A wealthy businessman found wandering a lonely border road in a barefoot and dishevelled condition last Tuesday is to face formal questioning by gardaí later this week about his mysterious disappearance.

A man has appeared before Dublin District Court charged in connection a drugs seizure in Longford last week.

The High Court has ruled against a 27 year-old woman who sued her boyfriend's parents after losing an eye in an accident at their home.

A soldier has died after a road crash that also claimed the life of a friend of One Direction’s Niall Horan.

A soldier has died after a road crash that also claimed the life of a friend of One Direction’s Niall Horan.

Gardaí are hoping they will be able to bring charges against a man in relation to alleged rapes of two prostitutes in a hotel last week.

Fans of boyband One Direction are going in the wrong direction looking for Niall Horan on Twitter.

Discount retailer Dealz is continuing to aggressively expand into the retail market, planning 10 stores that will employ an extra 300 people.