It's been a bit of a ruff day.

Track improvement works taking place in Dublin are set to cause disruption to services over the Easter bank holiday weekend.

Áine Hannafin is a lively seven-year-old girl who will not let anything stand in her way, not even a severe form of cystic fibrosis (CF).

A teenage boy has died after being struck by a van in Kildare.

There’s always a temptation to say a major drugs haul represents a ‘significant blow’ to the crime gang being hit. Researchers have long complained of the tendency of the media, and gardaí, to make such claims, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A 19th-century inn in Co Clare has become the latest Irish restaurant to be added to the prestigious Michelin star list.

A 19th-century inn has become the latest Irish restaurant to be added to the prestigious Michelin star list.

Floating the idea that you can live on Ireland’s waterways might not be as strange as it sounds. Rita de Brún meets some of our barge people

Gardaí have continued their crackdown on the Kinahan crime cartel with the arrest of a man in Wexford.

Commissioner’s briefing comes on back of heavy blows against gangland, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has praised the actions of gardaí following the seizure of €3m worth of drugs, as well as an assault rifle, from a house in Kildare over the weekend.

Rent rises for tens of thousands of tenants in Cork, Galway, and areas around Dublin will be capped from today, but some cities and towns have failed a ‘rent pressure zone’ test, sparking a backlash from TDs.

Commuting from Kildare to Dublin every day, while paying a mortgage and rearing a family, James Lawless felt he understood much of his constituency.

The population of this constituency has, like many other commuter belt areas, increased in recent years.

One of two men arrested in connection with the murder of Kenneth O’Brien, whose dismembered body was found in a canal, has had his period of detention extended by a judge for a second time.

The results of forensic tests on part of a power tool and on bags containing the limbs of murder victim Kenneth O’Brien are expected to take a couple of weeks.

The Garda investigation into the murder of Kenneth O’Brien is gathering apace after human limbs were discovered along the Grand Canal.

Latin Tridentine Bishop Michael Cox has told the High Court he did not in any way influence a woman whose will is at the centre of a legal dispute.

In her early 20s Maria was in a folk group, and she started writing lyrics, and some poetry. But it wasn’t until 2004, when she joined a creative writing group that she started taking writing seriously.

Italian rider Francesca Reda is the first race leader of this year’s An Post Rás after a thrilling opening stage from Dunboyne to Carlow yesterday which saw the peloton lose over 10 minutes and Ian Richardson of UCD take the county rider prize.

A man arrested at a Republican Sinn Féin commemoration who went on to assault a detective garda and “took a hold” of his pistol has lost an appeal against conviction.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a taxi hijacking in Naas overnight.

Commuters are being advised of major disruption to rail services in and out of Heuston Station in Dublin this morning due to a fatality on the line between Newbridge and Sallins overnight.

More than 2,000 devoted Cats fans turned out to see Kilkenny’s senior hurlers train ahead of tomorrow’s All Ireland final clash with Tipperary.

ESB and Vodafone are to invest €450m in a "100% fibre-to-the-building" broadband network offering speeds from 200 Mbps to 1000 Mbps.

Bill Cullen has been cleared of a speeding offence after a court heard that his country mansion often gets mixed up with a young offenders' jail.

A person has died after being struck by a train in County Kildare.

Out of control fires were not the thing a unit of Naas Fire Brigade had to contend with on Halloween night this year.

MINKE whales galore off the Seven Heads, the Old Head of Kinsale and everywhere along the south coast.

The family of a 19-year-old computer engineering student who died from a blood clot to his lung at Naas General Hospital is to receive €90,000 in a settlement with the HSE.

The financial woes caused by the “stars” of the Anglo tapes which have afflicted an entire nation will no longer be troubling one lucky Irish citizen who scooped almost €94m in Tuesday’s Euromillions draw.

Reilly's Supervalue in Sallins, Co Kildare, has said the Lottery has told them they did not sell the €94m winning Euromillions ticket.

Motorists are being warned to take extreme care if driving in the Wicklow Mountains tonight, following a number of minor road accidents due to snow.

An Irish doctor wanted in Florida on charges of child molestation has been arrested in Morocco.

A High Court Judge has today criticised the gardaí over their failure to take immediate action when an Irish doctor on bail awaiting the outcome of his appeal against his extradition to the US on child molestation charges had absconded.

A boy and a girl who had been reported missing from the Foxhill area of Dublin have been found.

A man in his 60s has been killed in a hit-and-run incident in Co Kildare, it has emerged today.

CIÉ’S three transport companies have been warned that they could lose up to 10% of their annual subvention if they don’t meet improved performance targets.

RAIL fares are to increase from March 1 after the National Transport Authority announced yesterday that it has sanctioned Iarnród Éireann to increase DART, commuter and some intercity fares by an average of 3%.

GARDAÍ are investigating a suspicious fire which broke out on Thursday evening at a landfill in Co Kildare which is the subject of multiple High Court actions to close down the facility.

FORMER teenage mother Holly Railton has gone back to school so that students can learn from her mistake.

Republican Sinn Féin is holding its annual Theobald Wolfe Tone commemoration in Kildare today.

DEVELOPMENT lands in Athlone valued in 2006 at €31 million have a current value of €600,000.