Documents and information relating to the care of 'Grace' have been requested of 51 public bodies and individuals by the Commission into her savage sexual abuse in a foster home.

Up to 460,000 people, or about 10% of the population, are at risk of exposure to radon, a radioactive gas that causes lung cancer.

This week I’m taking a snapshot of the Languedoc-Roussillon, easily the most unwieldy wine region in France and arguably the world.

Just over half of all jobs created in Ireland by foreign direct investment (FDI) last year were in locations outside of Dublin.

Nine soldiers and eight civilians have been killed when Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb outside a military checkpoint in south-east Turkey, the local governor said.

Health Minister Simon Harris is basing his decision to cut cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) on a flawed and invalid report.

At least 11 police officers have died and 78 other people are injured after Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in south-east Turkey with an explosives-laden truck.

A long-awaited independent report to decide on whether a state commission of inquiry is needed due to the alleged cover-up of serious foster care abuse in the South-East is expected to be given to Government before the weekend.

Average land prices have fallen by 1.5% to €9,650 per acre in the six months to June, according to a survey issued by Sherry Fitzgerald estate agents.

Unemployment in the South-East of the country is at crisis point after almost a decade and a half of stagnation in the regional economy, a wide-ranging new report has found.

Authorities in central Texas have found two more bodies along flooded streams, bringing the death toll from severe weather in the state to six.

Official figures show that the economy is producing lots of jobs, but still struggles to deliver jobs in parts of the country outside Dublin, a leading analyst has said.

Over 600 rebels mobilised in the western county, but, with no arms nor reinforcements arriving, they had no choice but to reject the urgings of their leader Liam Mellows and disband, writes Conor McNamara

At least 18 people are dead after gunmen stormed into a shopping centre in Baghdad after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance.

Best-selling children’s author Eoin Colfer has been recruited by the South-East’s partnership of cities and towns to act as an ambassador for their bid to become the 2020 European Capital of Culture.

Labour market figures, published by the CSO last week, for the first quarter of 2015 contained more good news on the Irish economy. The data show that Ireland is seeing strong, broad-based job growth, with sharply falling unemployment, writes Oliver Mangan.

Several residents of a small south-east Missouri town said they do not believe the abrupt resignations of five of six members of the police force after the long-time mayor, a white man, lost to a black woman have anything to do with racism.

President Barack Obama and military chiefs from more than 20 nations gathered in a show of strength against Islamic State (IS) fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Tourism leaders in the South-East say 80% of those in the hospitality sector feel the region is not adequately represented by Tourism Ireland when it comes to promotions in the international market.

Cratloe are poised to challenge for a senior hurling and football double in the Banner county.

Malaysia’s prime minister says the downed passenger jet did not make any distress call before it crashed, and that the flight route was declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Thailand’s army has declared martial law, intensifying the turbulent nation’s deepening political crisis but denying a coup d’etat was under way.

The IDA is to start building factories for the first time in 30 years in an attempt to lure companies to Athlone and Waterford.

The GAA, and sport in general, have always been about much more than the bits between the white lines.

Kilkenny-based McCreery Contract Cleaning has created 50 jobs with its expansion into the Dublin market, boosting employee numbers to 90.

Media and telecom owner Denis O’Brien has failed in his bid to secure a telecommunications licence in Burma, with Norway’s Telenor and Qatar’s Ooredoo being granted the rights to develop the south-east Asian country’s mobile network.

Up to 2,000 jobs, many indirectly, could be created by a dairy production facility which could boost the economy in the South-East by hundreds of millions of euro annually.

Algerian security forces are trying to bring to an end a four-day stand-off with Islamist extremists holding foreign hostages at a remote gas plant, a drama that has left at least 12 dead and horrified governments around the world.

A call centre has delivered an early Christmas present of 250 jobs to an unemployment blackspot.

WHEN Talk Talk suddenly announced last year that it was closing in Waterford with the loss of 575 jobs, Minister for Jobs and Enterprise Richard Bruton said creating jobs in the beleaguered South-East was going to a priority.

Musgrave has officially opened its €2m Marketplace cash and carry outlet in Waterford.

Waterford Institute of Technology will hold an international conference on global stability and systems engineering next week.

A car bomb driven by two suspected suicide attackers has exploded outside a police station in central Turkey, killing at least one policeman and wounding 11 people.

Gardaí have busted three cannabis factories, worth over €600,000, in the South-East in three days.

An incident on Wednesday where a Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency descent over the Swiss Alps was the second such incident involving the company in as many months.