The Dáil is set to gain two more TDs from the next election as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is a major winner in the redraw of constituency boundaries announced tonight, writes Daniel McConnell.

A Sinn Féin TD has made a protected disclosure to the Justice Minister about allegations of Garda misconduct in the Leitrim distric

A politician at the centre of allegations he had used political influence to prevent continuing garda questioning of the main suspect for the disappearance of missing child Mary Boyle yesterday denied any involvement.

This constituency could be best described as hodgepodge, taking in four counties and two provinces.

Government cutbacks make it unlikely the Defence Forces and the gardaí could prevent an outbreak of foot- and-mouth, swine flu, or avian flu spreading from the North into the Republic, according to a former senior army officer.

IT IS, in many respects, a frightening thought that the so-called border with the North no longer exists. 

Motorists across the North are being warned of road restrictions as security arrangements are in place ahead of tomorrow's G8 Summit.

US President Barack Obama’s wife Michelle and their daughters will tour Dublin during the G8 summit.

A ring of steel has been erected across both sides of the border as the world’s leaders descend on Fermanagh for the G8 summit on Monday.

A man injured while out walking in South Donegal yesterday afternoon has been rescued following a 12-hour operation.

Rare unpublished letters written by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis have been donated to a university in his native Belfast.

THE number of TDs in the next Dáil will be chopped from 166 to 158 as part of a fundamental overhaul of constituencies.

With constituencies in general growing larger, parties will find it easier to implement gender quotas. But some areas will see unprecedented competition, writes Adrian Kavanagh

The Constituency Commission has recommended cutting the number of TDs in Leinster House by eight - from 166 to 158.

Forest fires have broken out in parts of south Donegal, but have so far been contained.

CHARITIES are to receive 10c per unit sold of a new bottled water called Aquaid, the creation of 19-year-old UCD Civil Engineering student Eoin Dunlevy.

THE newly ordained Bishop of Clogher has said it may be no bad thing that the Church has been brought to its knees by the child abuse crisis.

A human skull has been discovered at a GAA football ground in Co Donegal.

PEOPLE’S lifestyles are making them more vulnerable to certain cancers, Ireland’s first cancer atlas reveals.

PEOPLE living on a peninsula in West Cork were celebrating yesterday as they were officially awarded the title of European Destination of Excellence.

A man has died following a road crash in Co. Donegal on Sunday night.

THE NTR Group-owned waste management company, Greenstar, has acquired the household and commercial bin collection division of Donegal-based company Laghey Waste, as part of its expansion into the north-west of the country.

FIVE-year business plans for six fishery harbour centres around the country will be published shortly, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Mary Coughlan announced yesterday.

Hundreds of protesters are to picket the Dáil today over controversial plans to abolish vital cancer services in the north-west.

A National Roads Authority official has defended the toll for the Kilcock to Kinnegad motorway, which rises 10 cent to €2.50 in January, only three weeks after opening.

The Government has promised to do all it can to find alternative employment for workers at Hospira in Donegal town.

Tim Collins, joint chief executive of new radio station Ocean FM, talks to David Clerkin.

Ireland's newest local radio station, Ocean FM, has gone on air today.

The north west will get a new commercial radio station this morning with the launch of Ocean FM.

The Sligo local radio station North West Radio has announced plans to mount a Supreme Court appeal in an effort to prevent the loss of its broadcasting licence.

North West Radio, which is the licensed local broadcaster in the Sligo/South Donegal/North Leitrim region, has described today’s High Court decision not the reverse the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland’s decision to withdraw its broadcasting licence as "devastating".

Chief executive of North West Radio, Paul Claffey, has said that Minister for Communications Dermot Ahern's expressed concern about the "transparency" and "fairness" of the current local radio licensing system, as operated by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, is welcome but does not go far enough.

A town in South Donegal is today in shock following the death of nine-year-old Erin Lawc of Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

A town in South Donegal is this morning in shock following the death of a nine-year-old girl in a freak accident.

Delegates at the TUI conference in Bundoran in Donegal have overwhelmingly rejected a motion of no confidence in the Executive Committee of the TUI.

An alleged incursion by British troops into Donegal is to be taken up with the Irish and British governments.