Aidan Murphy and Gary Daly progressed in the Mother Hegarty Cup at Lyre.

Iceland offering 10% discount to all members of the Irish Emergency Services

Children's rights activist Christina Noble has spoken publicly for the first time about her son being taken from her, at a mother and baby home in Dublin.

Those heading to the capital today for the parade or to attend the All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park should make allowances for traffic and transport disruptions arising from today’s parade when travelling to Dublin.

The religious order which ran an orphanage in Scotland where hundreds of children are believed to have died also ran Ireland’s largest mother and baby home.

Survivors of Magdalene laundries, and their relatives, have relived the horrors of rape, abuse and lost lives as they renewed calls for a memorial and full redress.

Drugs worth up to €800,000 have been seized by gardaí in Dublin.

Latest: A suspected pipe bomb found in Cabra, Dublin this morning has been removed for examination.

A former Sinn Féin councillor who physically and mentally tortured a man he believed was trying to defraud him has been jailed for 12 years by the Special Criminal Court.

The Special Criminal Court has accepted allegations that a former Sinn Féin Councillor claimed he was in the IRA and threatened the family of a man he had falsely imprisoned and waterboarded.

Former Louth manager Paddy Carr believes referee Brendan Gorman “lost control of everything towards the end” of the county’s remarkable qualifier defeat to Meath in 2002.

A former Sinn Féin councillor who waterboarded and threatened to kill a man who he believed was trying to defraud him was not a friend of Sinn Féin TDs Mary Lou Mc Donald and Gerry Adams, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A former Sinn Féín Councillor and his father are due to be sentenced today for falsely imprisoning and threatening to kill a con artist.

A former Sinn Féin councillor waterboarded and threatened to kill a man who he believed was trying to defraud him, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A former Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor and his father will be sentenced next month after imprisoning and threatening to kill a man.

The Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors has claimed that up to 7000 babies could have been buried at 9 mother and baby homes across the country.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Gardaí in Listowel, Co Kerry, are appealing for information following a fatal collision near Finuge on Wednesday night after which a pedestrian in his 60s died.

A man who drove a stolen Mercedes through a fence during a high-speed garda chase before wading through a river to avoid capture has been jailed for three years.

A man murdered in a daylight shooting in Dublin city centre has been named locally as David Douglas.

Gardaí are hoping CCTV footage and forensic tests on a handgun will assist them in identifying the culprits behind the latest gangland murder in Dublin.

Local representatives have called for a meeting between Dublin City Council and Irish Rail to finally close off a ‘short cut’ at which a father and son died at the weekend.

A 51-year-old French polisher, currently appealing conviction and imprisonment for damaging a €10m Monet painting, was said by a judge yesterday to have deliberately set a trap to cause a traffic collision.

Dublin Central has changed from a four-seater to a three-seat constituency since 2011 and with four prominent sitting TDs, not to mention a number of high-profile candidates hoping to be elected, the race to the Dáil will certainly be interesting.

“Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; the last, the least, the littlest” — Cardinal Roger Mahoney (1998).

A 68-year-old woman is suing two religious orders and the HSE over the alleged forced adoption of her four-month-old baby over 40 years ago.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a man's body in a house on Dublin's Northside.

Mixed-race Irish who spent time in industrial schools will today claim they faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse there because of the colour of their skin.

A university student who admitted being in possession of over €3,000 worth of cannabis has avoided a conviction after a judge applied the Probation Act.

Former crime boss John Gilligan is expected to recover after he escaped with his life despite being shot some four times at close range.

A man has been arrested following a cannabis seizure in Dublin yesterday.

Death threats, knife attacks, physical assaults, verbal abuse, and attacks on security staff and members of the public are just some of the dangers Social Protection staff as well as dole claimants are facing in welfare offices.

Gardaí are investigating an apparent attempt on the life of John Gilligan in Dublin.

Ticketmaster has described Eamonn O’Connor, the organisation's Managing Director who has passed away following a short illness, as "a major figure in the Irish entertainment industry".

Gardaí have carried out a search on waste ground on the Navan Road in Dublin as part of their ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Gerard Daly from Co Cavan.

A taxi driver who picked three young men up after the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in Dublin last summer is being asked to come forward to help gardai with their inquiries.

Customers in a pub fled for safety as a gunman opened fire on a convicted criminal, gardaí said.

A man has been shot dead in a pub in Dublin.

Up to 240 jobs are to be created in two separate announcements, with Kildare and Dublin first to benefit.

Phoenix Park will not be shut for concerts in the wake of drug deaths and stabbings at last weekend’s dance and rap event.

St Brigid’s, Dublin claimed a unique All-Ireland double on Saturday.

Controversy reigned at the All-Ireland Féile na nGael Under-14 competition in Dublin last night, with Cork side Aghabullogue thrown out of the Division 1 camogie competition.