With the release of a new range of protein bars and the signing of its first export contract, Blanchardstown snack food company Everest is scaling up.

A convicted murderer has received a 15-year prison sentence for raping a woman in her home nine years ago.

The examiner appointed to Dublin’s largest opticians chain has been granted an extension of 30 days by Judge Jacqueline Linnane to allow further time to form a scheme aimed at saving the company.

Developer Johnny Ronan has unveiled plans for a €350m residential development in Dublin’s Docklands.

Ireland has just lost one of its more unique public figures with the passing of Feargal Quinn at the age of 82.

The present 'debate' on Brexit in the parliament in Westminster is a continuation of the decades-long anti-EU propaganda campaign by the London media.

A Cavan man has been convicted of a €90,000 tiger kidnapping four years ago in which a postmistress, her daughter and an Italian student were abducted from their home.

Listening to the Westminster MP John Redwood on the radio this morning [October 15] reminds all of us of the attitude and motivation for the UK decision on Brexit.

A “complete prohibition” on admitting seriously physically unwell residents to a private eating disorders treatment centre has been imposed by the Mental Health Commission.

The Four Seasons Hotel Monaghan Rally ended in dramatic fashion as the Donegal/Monaghan pairing of Donagh Kelly/Conor Foley guided their KN Group liveried Ford Focus WRC to a final stage victory to deny long time leaders, the Monaghan/Cork duo of Sam Moffett/Karl Atkinson (Ford Fiesta R5).

Cork driver and four-time British Rally Champion Keith Cronin will campaign the new generation Hyundai i20 R5-N in this year’s British Rally Championship that includes rounds of the World Rally Championship (Wales Rally GB) and the European Rally Championship (Rally Ypres).

A teenager’s brilliant idea could lift him to great heights in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has criticised the leniency of the sentence handed down to Tom Humphries.

The former high profile sports journalist Tom Humphries has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for grooming and sexually abusing a teenage girl.

Sunday Times journalist David Walsh has defended his decision to write a character reference for Tom Humphries, the former Irish Times journalist convicted of grooming a teenage girl to engage in sexual acts.

Latest: It is being reported that the man who is injured is aged 40 and is from the Sutton/Bayside area of north Dublin.

The sentencing of sports journalist Tom Humphries for the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child has been adjourned to October.

It is understood that a boom may have swung across the deck of the boat and struck the boy in the head.

Earlier, they saved another dog who had swam out to sea and wasn't able to return.

The body of murdered Pc Keith Palmer has begun a final journey through the city he once protected as thousands of police officers lined the route of his funeral cortege.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain admits winning was all that mattered as Arsenal overcame non-league Sutton to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.

Ciara Neville (Emerald) kept her cool to clinch gold after a poor start in the women’s 60m while Phil Healy (Bandon) secured the European standard for the 400m on a weekend full of back stories and close finishes at the Irish Life Health National Indoor Championships in Abbotstown, Dublin.

 

Menacing seagulls are causing such havoc in Britain that vigilantes are arming themselves with guns and launching their own culls, a British politician has said.

Anyone missing a jetski?

It’s a horrible experience to be burgled and lose some of your prized possessions.

British social services bosses say lawyers advised them that they “couldn’t have appealed” when a senior family court judge ruled that Ellie Butler should return to live with the father who had been accused of hurting her.

Children's television character Peppa Pig has been called in the defence of a man accused of murdering his six-year-old daughter in England.

Swimming restrictions are being implemented at another of the country's beaches.

A judge yesterday banned a 74-year-old peace activist from entering Co Clare arising from an alleged incursion into Shannon Airport.

Christy O’Connor Sr was an Irish national treasure who took on golf’s global giants and beat them, his funeral has heard.

Six-year-old Ellie Butler suffered skull fractures twice in her tragically short life - the first possibly dating back to when her father was accused of assaulting her as a baby, a court has heard.

On April 14, A. Leary of Sutton, Dublin wrote that it was an ordeal explaining our history to foreigners.

A harrowing 999 call has been played in the trial of a father accused of battering his six-year-old daughter to death in a fit of rage.

Reading the newspapers, looking at TV and listening to radio at the present time brings us back to the days of the Celtic Tiger when the all-in-the-garden-is-rosy message was being proclaimed.

A former Labour and Sinn Féin Dublin City councillor has pleaded guilty to making hoax telephone calls, a court has heard.

To bee or not to bee.. the question is whether mankind can continue to exist without them.

A sailing instructor whose wedding ring finger was amputated in an accident as she helped tow a dinghy has settled her High Court action against her sailing club.

A woman who burgled an elderly man’s home with an accomplice posing as a garda has been jailed for three and a half years.