A 29-year-old man has been arrested in relation to the murder of a 56-year-old man in Swords in Dublin.

Latest: Gardai investigating the murder of a man in Swords in Dublin early today have arrested a 29 year old man in connection with their inquiries.

Gardaí are investigating after a man was found with serious injuries in an underground car park in Swords, Co Dublin.

A €10 million west Cork schools amalgamation later this summer brings Skibbereen’s Mercy Heights school, behind the old convent, up for sale for new uses and development.

An alleged serial killer has appeared in court accused of drugging and murdering four young men he met on gay websites, and dumping their bodies in and around a churchyard in east London.

‘We’ve waited many, many years for this’

A man aged in his 40s is recovering in hospital in Cork this afternoon after being stabbed a number of times on Friday night.

A Cork couple who died in a high-speed crash on a rural road north of Cork City on Saturday have been named.

A 29-year-old man has been charged in connectoin with a fatal hit and run on Dublin's north side yesterday.

A man in his late 40s has died after being hit by a car in Dublin early this morning.

Fifty-six police officers were injured during loyalist riots in Belfast city centre in a night of chaotic violence that the North's Chief Constable has described as mindless anarchy.

Up to 56 PSNI officers were injured when serious loyalist rioting engulfed Belfast city centre in violence linked to a contentious republican parade.

Serious rioting engulfed Belfast city centre tonight as police were attacked by loyalists protesting ahead of a republican parade.

A cannabis cultivation operation has been discovered in Skibereen Co. Cork.

An investigation is underway into a fire at the site of former hotel in New Ross, Co. Wexford.

A man was arrested today in connection with a bomb blast in the North which injured three children.

Three children injured in a bomb attack in the North had a miraculous escape, police said today.

WHEN he arrived at St Andrews on Sunday and took a tour of the Old Course, 45-mile-per-hour winds were out of the west, meaning you could just about reach the par four 18th green with a hybrid or even a long iron.

A man who died when he fell under a newspaper delivery van on Belfast’s Westlink in the middle of the night had just discharged himself from hospital before being treated for injuries suffered in another drunken fall, an inquest heard today.

A WEALTHY American couple, which supports the Vatican museum and has donated to the British Labour Party, plans to give almost €400,000 to help build a new arts centre in west Cork.

Rose Martin says this property retains many of its original features.

Belfast tonight took another major step towards normality with the removal of the final security barriers within the city centre.

Police in north Belfast were today investigating the possibility that the stabbing of a man in the stomach was a sectarian attack.

A community was tonight urged to unite against dissident republicans who placed a bomb in a hijacked vehicle and ordered its driver to park outside a police station.

A PSNI officer was hospitalised and several others were slightly injured last night after coming under attack while dealing with a bomb alert in Lurgan, Co Armagh.

Fears that dissident republicans are planning a pre-Christmas fire bombing blitz intensified tonight with the discovery of two incendiary devices in Belfast.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast today urged the public to defy bombers who placed an incendiary device in a city centre shop.

A man was stabbed and five people were arrested after mobs went on the rampage in a second night of trouble in a Northern Ireland town.

A 47-year-old man today denied responsibility for a murder on a loyalist housing estate in Co Down earlier this year.

Parts of Belfast city centre were sealed off today as police negotiated with a man on the roof of a building who claimed to be protesting at the prison conditions at Maghaberry jail.

A police officer was injured tonight after a mob went on the rampage when two men were arrested.

Gardai have issued flood alerts for a number of areas in the east of the country and are advising motorists to allow extra time for journeys.

A man has been shot dead at a bar in the North.

Today marks the 27th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, when - on May 17 1974 - 33 people died and hundreds more were injured and maimed in the attacks on Dublin and Monaghan pubs.

Northern First Minister David Trimble is appealing for information after a Catholic man was shot dead in Lurgan last night.