The hearing into what is set to be a full appeal by two sons of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae and a friend against conviction for assault, has been listed.

Recreational drug users should be left in “no doubt” that they are supporting gangs that prey on children and murder people, leading experts have said.

All of Ireland’s most expensive streets are in Dublin, with Temple Road now taking the crown as the costliest street in the country. Near Rathgar, Milltown and Rathmines, properties on Temple Road come with an average price tag of €5.5m.

All of Ireland's most expensive streets are in Dublin, with Temple Road now taking the crown as the costliest street in the country.

A career in broadcasting wasn’t even close to my radar until TG4 asked me to read the weather.

The 23-year-old, who was found guilty on Monday of assaulting a man two years ago, was elected as a councillor earlier this year.

House-buyers in Dublin are paying up to 10% more for properties located near railway stations or Luas lines.

Two sons of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae have gone on trial charged, along with a third man, of assaulting a man in Kenmare two years ago.

The Department of Education has been criticised after five Educate Together Schools had to delay the start of their new term.

Eight beaches in Dublin have been closed to swimmers following the heavy rainfall last night.

The Department of Education paid €1.5m this year to a construction company with which it remains in legal dispute over alleged safety risks at a series of schools.

A nurse who sued after she claimed an aerosol dry shampoo turned into "a flame thrower" when she sprayed it in a nightclub toilet has settled her High Court action.

A nurse has told the High Court how when she sprayed a dry shampoo in the toilet of a Dublin nightclub the aerosol turned in to a "flame thrower.”

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

Following the re-opening of Seapoint and the Forty Foot yesterday, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have given Sandycove Beach the all-clear today.

A warm-weather warning will come into effect for parts of the country later today.

Following a wastewater leak on Monday, two Dublin beaches have re-opened to swimmers.

An 18-foot motor yacht with two people onboard ran into difficulty when it broke down off Sandymount shortly after 4pm Sunday.

A bathing ban remains in place at Dollymount Beach.

Renters in Dublin are paying an extra €3,000 per year to live near the Luas network compared to average rents in other parts of the city.

In advance of The Blades’ first Cork gig in many years, Paul Cleary takes Richard Fitzpatrick through some of his musical milestones.

The bans were lifted at all beaches in the Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown area last night after tests found the water quality had returned to normal.

The leak is due to a storm-water overflow from Ringsend Treatment Plant on June 4 and 5.

Almost three-quarters of Irish bathing waters have been rated "excellent" by European standards, but the country is lagging significantly behind many of our European neighbours.

A date has been set for the late night assault case involving the newly elected Kerry County Councillor Jackie Healy-Rae, who is alleged to have assaulted a 30-year-old English visitor to Kenmare, causing harm, in December 2017.

A swimming ban at three Dublin beaches has been extended.

Representatives will meet with the Minister for Health this afternoon to seek an extra €2million in funding.

Jackie Healy Rae, the son of Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae, has been charged with assaulting a 30-year-old English visitor on a Christmas break in Kenmare.

An Irish World Record breaker has appealed for his mum and sister, who disappeared from his life over 45 years ago, to come forward so he can share his win with them.

Dr Vincent Carroll, GP, Public Health Doctor and chair of ARC Cancer Support Centres

“It probably was one of the hardest games I have played in.”

Neither Bath nor Leinster have taken a scalpel to their fifteens this week. The weather, that brutal cocktail of wind, rain and cold, will be more of the same. Talk to Leo Cullen, though, and he will tell you that little else stays the same come the second of these back-to-back European encounters.

Thousands of parents affected by the deepening schools safety scandal could sue the State for “considerable damages” as a direct result of the decade-long failure to uncover the potentially life-threatening crisis.

A 35-year-old Dubliner shouted "guilty of f*cking what" when a jury convicted him of murdering two men who had arranged to sell him a stolen car.

Women placed in industrial schools and Magdalene laundries speak out about their experiences.

EPA classifies 102 of 142 bathing waters as ‘excellent’ and 18 as ‘good’ but warns about bacterial contamination caused by bird droppings

One of the women felt the man trying to grab the bag from her shoulder. She got a terrible fright and screamed loudly “No, no!” but decided she wasn't letting go.

While the EY Hockey Leagues could both be decided this weekend, the Munster focus will be on who can potentially join the elite division with UCC’s men and Catholic Institute’s women starting out their play-off journeys.

Rents for homes near the new Luas cross-city line have seen a rise of 21% in the last year, according to research from daft.ie.

An elderly woman is in hospital after fighting off a man who tried to rob her in Sandymount, Dublin, last night.

Two people have been rescued by the RNLI Lifeboat after being cut off by the rising tide at Sandymount in Dublin.

The Irish passport is rather wonderful — a montage of graphics, images, music and writing, communicating our Celtic past and present. It’s ideal if you’re stuck on a plane, with no reading material other than the mildly depressing sky-shopping and sky-café brochures.

Latest: A solicitor says the suspect in an alleged rape case may not have been charged for a number of reasons.