Johnny Martyn could feel the right side of his mouth collapsing. Dizzy and disorientated, he stood frozen in shock. 

Double-killer John Gallagher appeared in court in a case against his brother.

Gardai in County Leitrim are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist in his 20s died following a collision yesterday.

The woman killed in yesterday’s head-on collision in north Cork has been named as 35-year-old Pamela Ahern from Dungourney.

Two widowers whose wives died due to maternity service mistakes have urged the HSE to “learn the lessons” of what happened after admitting they still have “worries and concerns” over care standards.

Kian Anthony Bourke, who weighed in at 3.31kg, became the first baby arrival in Ireland for 2015, popping into the world just four seconds after midnight.

The husband of a woman who died after giving birth at Sligo General Hospital four years ago has appealed to the Health Minister to ensure that the recommendations from the inquest into her death are implemented in full.

A widower whose wife died days after giving birth has told an inquest into her death he has lost the light of his life.

A Belfast pathologist has confirmed that Dhara Kivlehan died of multiple organ failure against a background of a rare syndrome, HELLP.

An inquest is to get underway in Co Leitrim today into the death of Dhara Kivlehan, who died in 2010 four days after giving birth at Sligo General Hospital.

A US tourist has been convicted of careless driving after his car struck two motorcycle gardaí who were on their way to deal with another accident.

Two Gardaí have been hospitalised following a road crash in Sligo this morning.

A father-of-three is the latest diver to lose his life after getting into difficulty off the coast of Donegal.

An elderly woman has been killed in a crash in County Donegal.

Gardaí have arrested two men over an assault in Sligo overnight which left a man with serious injuries to his face.

The trial of a 30-year-old from Sligo accused of murdering a pensioner has heard that an anonymous 999 caller said a man was tied up in a house, but that investigating gardaí went to the wrong address.

The trial of a 30-year-old from Sligo accused of murdering a pensioner has heard that an anonymous 999 caller said a man was tied up in a house but investigating gardaí went to the wrong address.

Broken-hearted Sinead Clinton posted a sad Valentine’s Day farewell to her boyfriend Cathal Reilly, who fell to his death on a midweek break away.

The solicitor for the family of Dhara Kivlehan says any inquest into her death in the North would be hollow, as it may not have the co-operation of the doctors involved.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost one million euro in damages from health chiefs.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost €1m in damages from health chiefs.

Upwards on 1,000 mourners turned out for the funeral of one of the founding members of Provisional Sinn Féin and a “towering figure of Irish republicanism” who was buried in brilliant sunshine in Co Donegal yesterday.

A man has died after he was injured during an incident involving a trailer in Co Leitrim yesterday evening.

A man has died following a fatal road traffic collision in County Leitrim.

Gardaí in Co Sligo are investigating a fatal collision which claimed the life of a young man.

All Paddy McConigley can recall was the pain. Searing. Raging. Blinding? Yes, sadly. The most excruciating experience he has ever endured.

Carbon monoxide killed a family of three in Christmas week 2011 after a plastic bag blocked a chimney.

A man in his 20s has been seriously injured in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Sligo.

A man in his 20s has died in a road crash in Co. Sligo.

A husband has demanded an inquest into the death of his wife who lost her life after giving birth to their first child.

A 21 year old man has died in a car crash in Co Sligo.

Taoiseach has been met with angry protestors at the opening of a new social welfare and employment service in Sligo.

A number of protests are taking place outside the launch of a new integrated employment service centre in Sligo.

The State Pathologist Marie Cassidy will this evening carry out a post mortem examination on the body of a 47-year-old man who died in a suspected hit-and-run incident in Co Donegal.

Gardaí are carrying out a series of raids in Sligo town this morning, as part of an investigation into the murder of Eugene Gillespie.

Gardaí in Sligo are investigating an aggravated burglary which occurred at a house in the town.

A man in his 20s has died following a motorbike accident in Ballygawley, Co Sligo last night.

A lawyer has said a price war between rival bar-owning cousins, with one selling cocktails for as little as 50c and another offering as much as customers could drink for €20, was in danger of putting a teenager in the morgue.

A settlement of €690,000 has been approved by the High Court to a young girl who had sued both the HSE and a Dublin hospital for alleged medical negligence arising out of the care she received before and during the months following her birth.

The body of a 21-year-old Kurdish man has been recovered from the River Shannon in Carrick-on-Shannon.

An 82-year-old woman has been killed in a single vehicle road crash in Co Roscommon.

A middle-aged man and his two children have been found dead in a house.

A BRAVE young boy has finally got to taste food for the first time in 10 years after swallowing acid in a horrific kitchen accident when he was a toddler.

TERESA KEANE, the mother of five-year-old Marie Keane-Connolly, was unable to hold back the tears when she knelt and placed flowers at the scene where her daughter had died in a fire just hours before.