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A 34-year-old Kilkenny man has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering a 25-year-old man with a single stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

The inquest into the death of an elderly woman who died in a nursing home has found that suffocation by smothering with a pillow was the cause of death, in line with “circumstantial evidence”, even though there were no “identifiable” asphyxial signs on her body.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a man with a stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

A €500,000 National Lifeguard Training Centre will be officially opened today in the seaside resort of Tramore, following a unique collaboration between agencies.

The fact that it can take over two years to reach a verdict underlined one of the great failings in the workplace dispute resolution machinery, writes Brian McDonald

The head housekeeper at one of the country’s most famous hotels has been awarded over €20,000 after a tribunal of inquiry ruled that she had been unfairly dismissed.

At least one person is making hay while it pours: One of the country’s main retailers of flood barriers.

A row over a move in a chess game is believed to have been a factor in the latest in a series of violent deaths across Ireland since the start of the new year.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing a teenage girl missing from her home in Tramore, Co Waterford since yesterday evening.

A lifeboat crew were called in to perform an unusual rescue off the south-east coast.

Education correspondent Niall Murray reports on the plan to move the Children of Lir statue to make way for a memorial to victims of residential child abuse

YOU can mention the war — any war — to Louise Richardson, but don’t get her started on the use of drones by the US.

A little boy with a rare disease is recovering from a bone marrow transplant in hospital.

The Irish Seal Sanctuary is calling for swift action by the National Parks and Wildlife Service after the discovery of another four decapitated seals in Tramore, Co Waterford yesterday.

A 6-year-old boy and his parents have arrived in the US where he is preparing to undergo a high-risk bone marrow transplant.

Cannabis plants worth €5m have been seized as part of an ongoing nationwide anti-drugs operation.

The parents of a 13-year-old girl whose attempted abduction led to the arrest of a convicted rapist, said they are glad their ordeal is over.

Local hero and six-time winner Niall Maguire heads a capacity entry for Sunday’s Monaghan Rally that includes a 30k stage as part of a three-stage loop.

Two Co Waterford men arrested during garda investigations into dissident terrorist activity were charged with IRA membership at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A MAN was last night remanded on bail after being charged with killing his elderly mother, who was found dead in her nursing home bed on Monday.

A MAN arrested at Dublin Airport was being questioned last night in relation to the suspicious death of an elderly woman in a nursing home.

THE Irish Refugee Council (IRC) has called for an urgent review of the “inhumane” deportation process after a young mother was detained for deportation just hours after she suffered a miscarriage.

The Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter was being asked today for an undertaking not to deport an asylum seeker who suffered a miscarriage in Dublin yesterday while awaiting deportation to Nigeria.

SATURDAY

Two missing teenagers from Laois and Tipperary have been found safe and well.

Junior Government ministers are attending events in Europe to mark the exact 90th anniversary of the ending of the First World War.

THE trial of a Waterford bus driver accused of his wife’s murder is due to get under way at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today.

TESCO is investing €12.5 million in the development of its first eco-store in Ireland while also finalising plans for new stores throughout the country.

A man has died after falling from a cliff at Tramore, Co Waterford in the early hours of this morning.

Gardaí in Carlow are continuing to question two men this morning in connection with the abduction of a 50-year-old woman from her home on the Laois border yesterday morning.

SUN-WORSHIPERS all along one of the south-east’s most popular coastlines are being urged to get off their beach towels and learn a bit more about the sea.

MURDERED horse breeder Dick Forristal died as a result of blood loss and injuries to both his lungs and aorta, caused by stab wounds, an inquest into his death has heard.

A WATERFORD man spent his 20th birthday behind bars last night, charged in connection with the death of 66-year-old horse breeder, Dick Forristal, on Thursday last.

A KERRYMAN badly injured when he was gored by an African elephant was unauthorised to enter the animal’s enclosure, his employers claimed last night.

FESTIVAL revellers will be getting up close and personal with creatures from the deep as the World Oceans Festival gets under way today in Tramore, Co Waterford.

A COTTAGE with a contemporary feel is how auctioneer John Rohan describes Rock Cottage in Tramore, Co Waterford.

A search operation has been launched in Tramore, Co Waterford, after a man was seen falling off the cliffs near the metal man landmark earlier today.

An Post has said it hopes to restore mail deliveries in east Mayo this afternoon.

AN amusement park ride which killed a 16 year-old funfair worker has been dismantled and replaced with another facility.