A group of Cork students who have been campaigning to establish a national day for missing people were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the year 2012.

One of the country’s largest hotel complexes was tonight taken into receivership.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for construction work to begin on the extension of the Luas Red Line (Connolly - Tallaght) to Citywest and Saggart, Co Dublin.

UNSUSPECTING motorists have been stung after selling their cars for stolen bank drafts.

Political Correspondent Fionnán Sheahan reports on the healthy competition between two European candidates.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Mansfield has expressed “extreme disappointment” at a decision by An Bord Pleanála to block his plans to build a €50m conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex near Saggart, Co Dublin.

ARMED raiders escaped with around €20,000 during a daring raid on a busy hotel in west Dublin early yesterday morning.

Thirteen people died in a weekend of tragedy on Ireland’s roads.