Two arson attacks were carried out on the home of a middle-aged man who showed adult pornography to two seven-year-old girls and sexually assaulted them in the basement of his home.

Two men who were found guilty to forging a will each had sentences imposed yesterday.

On a day which promised so much, Patrick Mullins salvaged a single win from his four rides in Gowran Park yesterday as he closes in on Billy Parkinson’s record, set in 1915, for the number of winners ridden by an amateur in a calendar year.

Two race-goers viciously head butted and punched and then kicked a garda in the back as she lay on the ground at the entrance to The Curragh Racecourse, Co Kildare, a judge heard today.

Marie Therese Wall has given herself a task: to spend 12 months sourcing all her purchases within a 16-mile radius

TWO people were killed in traffic accidents in the first 24 hours of the new year as new figures show that the number of fatalities on the roads has fallen by 50% since the introduction of the Road Safety Strategy five years ago.

A woman in her 70s has died following a crash in Wexford.

A lone armed and masked raider has escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash after a post office raid in Co. Wexford.

MICHELLE GILDERNEW has praised farmers’ resilience and initiative in livestock and bloodstock breeding despite economic downturn.

A convicted sex offender challenging his detention for the statutory rape of his sister is to remain behind bars, the High Court ruled today.

A massive search for a rescue diver and a fishing boat captain believed to have gone down with his vessel off the coast of Wexford was suspended tonight.

THE Supreme Court yesterday cut by almost half a record award of €600,000 to a woman who was repeatedly sexually abused during her early teenage years.