Macroom and Carlow Local Electoral Areas will become the latest rent pressure zones from today amid warnings that current levels of rent inflation are “not sustainable”.

A judge has struck out the case of a man charged with careless driving, after hearing the 103-year-old who struck a pedestrian was never in court before.

A bar worker has been charged with allowing people to be drunk in her pub.

Devastated mother Lorraine Gallagher has pleaded to young people to come forward and speak about their hurt if they are having suicidal feelings.

THE country’s oldest transplant patient, Brendan McLaughlin, admitted he is “frightened as hell” he may die if he ever has to seek urgent hospital treatment.