Two men who tied up and robbed a woman carried out the raid after watching a video, a sentencing hearing has been told.

A man has been arrested after an attempted robbery at a Post Office in Dublin.

Seven food businesses, among them an award-winning cake stall in Cork’s English Market, were served with closure orders last month for various breaches of food safety legislation.

A parish priest has said that a town is in shock following the death in a fire of two people who had come to live in the community.

A 22-year-old woman has been questioned in connection with a frenzied knife attack on another in the grounds of an Ennis primary school.

The bodies of three children and their father who went missing last week have been found at a remote beauty spot.

The father of a nine-year-old girl who was run over by a train said it was “a miracle” his daughter was not killed in the freak incident.

Three units of Dublin Fire Brigade are tacking a blaze at a derelict building in Portmarnock, Co. Dublin.

THE new-builds at Woodville created a bit of a design stir this year. Now, callers to the Courtyard, a new phase around the original period Woodville House, will want to know if the same standard has been matched.