Three Irish beaches have failed to retain their Blue Flag awards this year.

Management at a busy service station has decided to close their external ATM due to "ongoing security issues".

“Tell them you love them every day” is the heartbreaking advice given by a husband who now tenderly applies his wife’s make-up for her, after she suffered a massive stroke over a year ago.

Fr Ted writer Arthur Mathews has been going to the Drogs for years. Liam Mackey finds out why. 

The prospect of an Irish U20s jersey must have seemed a distant dream to a 16-year-old Tom O’Toole, as he looked out the window of Campbell College, in Belfast, on his first night at the school, and thought about the family he had left 10,000 miles behind, in Australia.

Dublin schools have cleaned up with seven out of 13 students receiving eight H1's in today's Leaving Cert results.

Irish Water has warned that some 6,500km of piping in the country’s network is at risk of bursting in a similar fashion to the disruption that has left tens of thousands of homes in Louth and Meath without water for almost a week now.

One of Ireland's biggest independent turkey farmers has insisted he will not be getting in a flap over Brexit.

Gardaí are investigating the theft of 20 insulation bales from a building site in County Louth.

A man in his 20s has died in a crash in Co Louth.

Ray Ryan finds tea and coffee specialists feature prominently among participants in the FoodService Academy programme. 

Academic Catriona Clear uses women’s magazines to shine a light on Irish lives in the 1950s and 60s when the level of ignorance about sex and ‘worldly matters’ was disturbingly high. Colette Sheridan gains an insight.

A man is due to appear in court charged in connection with an attack on three Gardaí in Louth.

Six men remain in garda custody in Drogheda, following a three-car collision in Termonfeckin, Co Louth.

Six men remain in Garda custody in Drogheda, following a three car collision in Termonfeckin, Co Louth.

The mother of a teenager who was kidnapped at gunpoint after he went to meet a man about selling a car says he was "badly shaken" by the experience.

Gardaí believe four men were involved in the kidnapping at gunpoint of an 18-year-old teenager in county Louth last night.

A judge said he could not “remotely estimate the incalculable loss”, of a woman to her family.

A seven-month-old baby narrowly avoided being shot dead when gunmen sprayed a house with bullets in an attack gardaí likened to “a gangster movie”.

Gardaí are investigating a shooting in Co Louth which has left a man in a serious condition.

Home are the heroes, a bit later than expected.

A 69-year-old grandmother claims she was “humiliated, embarrassed and stripped of all my dignity” when staff at Ryanair forced her to lift her shirt and display a colostomy bag she was wearing before allowing her to bring life-saving medical equipment on board a flight from Fuertaventura in Spain.

CARRICK-ON-SUIR ICA Guild in South Tipperary won the Betty Manning National Award last year.

“WE were perfect for each other,” said heartbroken Sean Kennedy last night as he tried to come to terms with the death in a road crash yesterday of his wife Emily Maguire.

The HSE and a consultant obstetrician have expressed sincere regret to the family of Garda Sergeant Tanya McCabe, who died following an emergency caesarean section.

DES SMYTH, now 57, has already won the Ladbrokes.com Irish PGA Championship six times and quietly fancies his chances of a seventh title when the event gets underway over the Seapoint links, Termonfeckin, Co Louth this morning.

Record numbers of deadly Portuguese Man-O-War have swarmed into the waters on Ireland’s east coast, marine scientists warned today.

IRISH actress Evanna Lynch and Harry Potter author JK Rowling have been pen-pals for years, the 17-year-old who plays Luna Lovegood revealed yesterday.

Thousands of girls who auditioned for the part of Lavender Brown in the new Harry Potter film have been left disappointed after producers named their choice.

A BROTHER and sister from Portlaoise, Co Laois, have won the top prizes in this year’s Macra na Feirme dairy stock judging competition, sponsored by the Irish Dairy Board and held at the Irish Holstein Friesian Association (IHFA) Open Day on the farm of Michael McDonnell, Cannontown, Termonfeckin, Co Louth.

The garda sergeant who died in Drogheda on Friday after giving birth to twins will be laid to rest today.

If you would like to improve your cooking skills watch out for the night classes starting in your local community college or school.

COLLON is a pretty, if minute, piece of rural Ireland going unnoticed daily by the rush of traffic on the Dublin Derry road.