The Director of Public Prosecutions paid the three barristers who prosecuted Seán FitzPatrick just over €1m in the longest running criminal trial in the history of the state.

Ed Sheeran kicks off the first of his two Irish gigs tonight.

Philomena Lee has said she is “appalled” by the revelations at Tuam, Co Galway, and said all institutions that dealt with unmarried women need to be examined.

The body of a man taken from the River Bandon in suspicious circumstances had black flex and lace around his neck, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

Soldiers in Irish units of the British Army called on to quash the fighting at the GPO,

Three separate diphtheria outbreaks among infants in one of the country’s mother and baby homes had 100% mortality rates.

Throw a sliotar across a field in the vicinity of any of the communities which nestle against the Kilkenny/ Tipperary border and you’re likely to hit someone who supports one county but is married to, works with, or is friends with, someone from the other side.

Perhaps the arrest of Gerry Adams in relation to the killing of Jean McConville should highlight the lopsided version of the Troubles as depicted in the mainstream media.

The Taoiseach broke into tears as he made an historic and emotionally-charged state apology to survivors of the Magdalene laundries.

The women of the Magdalene laundries have been giving their reaction to this evening's

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Survivors of the Magdalene laundries have said they expect to be told details of a compensation scheme alongside an anticipated state apology by the Government.

Women who worked in Magdalene laundries are to meet the Taoiseach today to further press for a state apology for their treatment.

Survivors of the Magdalene laundries have quickly rejected the Taoiseach's apology, and demanded a fuller and more frank admission from government and the religious orders involved.

Survivors of Catholic-run workhouses in Ireland are awaiting an apology from state and church over their forced detention in the institutions.

A second man is fighting for his life following a crash in which the driver died.

Celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin was very much down to earth for the launch of a community project to build an inner-city garden for homeless people in Dublin yesterday.

The army bomb disposal team are continuing to investigate a suspect device found in Rathangan in Co. Kildare this morning.

SEAN GALLAGHER has surged into second place in the presidential race but David Norris’s support has collapsed following a series of personal controversies.

A group representing survivors of the Magdalene laundries has presented a report to the Government alleging widespread state involvement with the notorious workhouses.

The jury has been discharged in the case of a Limerick man charged with attempted murder in the city last year, after the trial was unable to go ahead at the Central Criminal Court today.

A mother of two, who stole an ambulance during an emergency call-out in Dublin in January, has been jailed for four months.

The Government must launch an official inquiry into the treatment of women and girls detained in so-called Magdalene Laundries, it was ruled today.

I am a primary school teacher working in a large city school.

WHAT if Joe Higgins was right all along?

WHAT if Joe Higgins was right all along?

LOOKS like the American worker will have to rescue the American capitalist.

WHY should we vote for something we don’t understand?

Two men were put on trial in Cork today for engaging in a conspiracy to acquire rocket launchers and Kalashnikovs to further a "war" in Limerick.

A massive human sculpture could tower over a city if planning permission lodged today is granted.

YOU suggested (Editorial, December 4) that some people would charge Finance Minister Brian Cowen with over-reacting if he introduced measures aimed at reducing our contribution to global warming.

WHAT’S the world coming to indeed?

A BABY abandoned in a toilet block on the Australian Gold Coast by his distraught young Irish mother has been reunited with her in Ireland.

WE are, I imagine, well past the point where Irish is the second language in this country.

GIVEN the advanced years of many of the headliners at this summer’s concerts — Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Al Green, Joe Cocker, The Police, Lionel Richie, Elton John and, inevitably, Status Quo, but strangely enough no Bob Dylan — there is an almost reckless degree of jeopardy in the use of the word ‘live’ in any promotional material.

SIX months ago, the people of Dingle, in association with Kerry Co Council, held a plebiscite in which 93% of the townspeople voted to reinstate their traditional bilingual names, Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis.

RECENTLY the country experienced its first major motorway pile-up on the M7/M9.

A 20-year-old man was found hanging in a Garda holding cell hours after he had been caught red-handed in a stolen car, an inquest heard today.

A man who subjected two students to an hour long ordeal in which they were tied up and robbed in their own apartment has received a five year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two Dublin sisters have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of an African man who’s dismembered and headless body was pulled from the Royal Canal in Dublin last year.

IF only Muslim leaders had been as vociferous about the plight of the people of Darfur as they have been about the Pope’s recent speech, then the lives of many of their fellow Muslims could have been saved.

BERTIE is a proper Charlie. Right, boss?