For rugby in Spain, hosting the Champions Cup final will be a welcome diversion from the World Cup qualifier loss to Belgium in March, says Brendan O’Brien.

A group of trainee priests were turned away from a pub in Cardiff after a member of staff thought they were on a stag do.

 

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a stabbing in Dublin last week.

A police officer and a member of police staff are being treated in hospital after being injured during an anti-austerity campaign against the new Tory Government in the UK.

Victims of the Glasgow bin lorry crash have been remembered at Christmas services across the city.

The Archbishop of Glasgow has revealed that he tried to comfort a woman who had seen her teenage daughter and both her parents “killed almost right in front of her” in the bin lorry tragedy.

Three of the six victims killed when a bin lorry careered out of control through the centre of Glasgow were an elderly couple and their granddaughter.

Five females and one male were killed when a bin lorry careered out of control in Glasgow city centre, police in Scotland have said.

Police in Scotland are investigating what caused a bin lorry to veer out of control in a packed city street, killing six people.

Six people have died after an out-of-control bin lorry careered through streets packed with Christmas shoppers, knocking down pedestrians “like pinballs”.

Police Scotland declared a major incident and confirmed there were a “number of fatalities”.

Dublin City Council is to close three of its Motor Tax Offices for a week to allow time to process a significant backlog.

On a difficult night in Brisbane for the Wallabies, Ben Mowen was one of the shining lights for Robbie Deans’ wounded troops during their ill-fated opening match against the Lions.

A man who was handed in to a British police station by a figure dressed as Batman will be sentenced today for trying to cash a stolen cheque he said he found in the street.

A Chinese takeaway delivery man has admitted he is the mystery figure dressed as Batman who handed an alleged criminal into a police station in the middle of the night.

Premier League footballer David Goodwillie has been given a community service order for assaulting a man in a city centre.

A fire broke out overnight at a derelict building in Dublin city centre, causing extensive damage to the structure.

Luas services on the Red Line in Dublin city centre are back to normal this afternoon after they were disrupted for a time because of a fire in a derelict building.

The PSNI has released a 20-year-old man arrested following a brawl in Magherafelt, Co Derry.

A dentist accused of murdering his wife and his ex-lover's husband pleaded guilty today to indecently assaulting three women patients at his surgery.

Drivers jumping red lights in Dublin face being photographed and slapped with a fine under a new scheme cracking down on dangerous driving, it was revealed today.

Gardaí have arrested two men following a raid on a shop in Co Tipperary last night in which the manager was assaulted and tied up before the building was set on fire.

A shopkeeper was assaulted and his store set on fire during a late-night raid, gardaí confirmed today.

A woman is in a serious condition in hospital after being knocked down by a car in Belfast in the early hours of this morning.

Three men pleaded guilty today to indecent chanting at a football match.

Police today charged 11 people with indecent chanting at a football match

ORIGINAL second world war love letters have been turned into works of art which will go on show for the first time over Remembrance weekend.

TRAFFIC chaos was caused in city centre Dublin yesterday afternoon after a crash on the Luas line at Queen Street.

Part of Dublin's Luas Red Line has been suspended this evening.

A SLAUGHTERHOUSE in Offaly and a Dublin supermarket have been ordered to shut down part of their businesses over dangers of food poisoning, it was revealed yesterday.

A slaughterhouse in Offaly and a Dublin supermarket have been ordered to shut down parts of their businesses in relation to dangers of food poisoning, it was revealed today.

THE horse breeder shot dead at his home in Co Waterford yesterday is believed to have interrupted intruders at his stud farm.

A one-and-a-half acre site in the centre of Clonmel, Co Tipperary which has been sold for almost €3 million will be developed into a mix of shops, offices and residential properties.

Motorists were today warned to heed traffic lights and road markings at Luas junctions following an accident in which five people were injured.

Five people were hospitalised last night when a Luas tram derailed after colliding with a truck on Dublin's northside.

Detectives were today stepping up the hunt to catch up to 20 raiders who pulled off one of the world's biggest ever bank robberies.

A gang who pulled off a spectacular £20m-plus (€29m) bank raid may have been working on inside intelligence.

A MURDER investigation was launched last night after a post mortem revealed an inner city Dublin man, whose body was found on Thursday, died from multiple injuries.

A vandal wearing nothing but his underpants smashed £100,000 (€151,000) worth of windows in one street in Wales today.