The Supreme Court is to hear further submissions on whether a defamation action in which a man was awarded €900,000 should go back for a full jury re-trial or whether the court itself could assess damages.

The Court of Appeal was incorrect in overturning a €900,000 damages award for defamation to a man called a drug dealer by a newspaper, the Supreme Court has found.

Europe's environmental watchdogs are taking Ireland to court over the pumping of raw sewage into rivers and the sea.

Unions representing Expressway workers are to travel to towns and villages to drum up the support of rural dwellers as they fight a planned restructuring of the bus service.

A seven-judge Supreme Court has reserved judgment on a man’s appeal over orders overturning his €900,000 damages award for defamation and directing a rehearing.

Helen Rochford Brennan has always been a fighter, championing the cause of the underdog, be they refugees or people with a disability.

An Irish man has died in a workplace accident in Australia, it has emerged.

Ornua’s new butter packing facility in Mitchelstown is in the midst of a storm of protest by a Co Sligo action group trying to save more than 20 jobs at the Aurivo Co-Operative plant in Achonry.

A man who used a stolen digger to smash an ATM containing over €124,000 out of a bank wall has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

The Sunday World has urged the Court of Appeal to overturn a €900,000 damages award made to a man after a jury found he was libelled in an article describing him as a “Traveller drug king”.

A company director, his construction company and the biggest co-op in the west are all to stand trial after an internal wall at a DIY store collapsed, killing two men.

The main N17 between Ballinacarrow and Tubbercurry in Co Sligo is going to be closed for the next hour due to a four-car collision.

Pat Rabbitte, TD, on Prime Time, said that people can protest, and they are allowed to protest, but they cannot voice their concerns.

I know that people are sick of hearing about water — God knows, I am. But what gets to me is the people who say, ‘ah, sure, it’s only a couple of euro, pay it and be done with it’. It is a logical argument.

It’s a great little country, a great little sick country.

The Bishop of Cloyne has asked for prayers from the diocese following a suspected murder-suicide stabbing, involving a man who worked in the gardens of the Bishop's palace.

The husband and wife who died in a multiple stabbing at their family home in Cobh, Co Cork today have been named locally as physiotherapist Michael Greaney, 63, and his wife Valerie, aged in her 60s.

Librarians are throwing the book at plans to develop staffless libraries which would allow for longer opening hours.

Hotels in Tipperary and Wexford were among the 12 closure orders issued to food businesses last month, according to the latest figures from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.

Leo Varadkar appears to have made a serious blunder.

Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out on three members of a family, including twin boys, suspected of dying in a double murder and suicide.

A man accused of stealing an ATM containing more than €124,000 from a bank in Co Sligo has been refused bail in the High Court.

Gardaí have charged a man over the theft of an ATM machine in Co Sligo earlier this year.

A man has been charged with stealing an ATM from a bank in Sligo.

People may wonder and speculate but nobody really knew what happened to the Skeffington brothers at their home last weekend, mourners were told at their funeral yesterday.

Gardaí yesterday said there appeared to be "no warning signs" within a rural Sligo family that could have flagged the appalling murder of a nine-year-old boy and the subsequent suicide of his 21-year-old brother.

Brandon Skeffington, who was murdered in the family home on Sunday, and his older brother Shane, who died by suicide.

A rural community in Co Sligo rallied around a couple yesterday who returned to their home from a Sunday afternoon outing to find that two of their sons were dead.

A nine-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man have been found dead.

Gardaí are investigating after two bodies were found in Co Sligo yesterday evening.

Debut Irish novelist Eimear McBride has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction only three months after failing to win another high-profile award.

A 38-year-old author last night scooped the richest literary award confined to Irish writers for her first novel.

A Sinn Féin local election candidate who was suspended from the party for allegedly threatening to send an ex-prisoner after his wife has won a High Court order lifting the suspension.

Gardaí in Sligo are appealing for information after an ATM machine was pulled from the wall of a bank.

Gardaí are investigating the robbery of an ATM machine at a Bank of Ireland in Tubbercurry, Co Sligo.

Former Mayo footballer Fr. Dan O’Mahony has raised the question of putting players in charge of teams in financially-stricken counties.

Regarding the sub-standard practices of childcare providers, I am delighted that the RTÉ investigation has exposed failings. It is high time that parents, and society, examined the environment our children are in daily, for hours.

A man in his 20s has been seriously injured in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Sligo.