Ireland U20s coach Noel McNamara insists his full focus is on the upcoming Junior World Cup despite suggestions that he could be a possible candidate for a role with Munster under Johann van Graan.

A man in his twenties has died in a car crash in Carlow this evening.

There’s much to tempt collectors at Fonsie Mealy’s sale next week, says Des O’Sullivan.

Thousands of people may come forward to sue the State and religious orders over forced and illegal adoptions following the settlement of a high-profile case in the High Court.

Tressa Donnelly Reeves spent more than 50 years searching for her son. She told the High Court she was informed by a nun during her quest that adopted children don't want anything to do with their birth parents.

The driver of a car which crashed into a teacher’s car killing her parents screamed and blacked out when her passenger, a psychiatric patient, allegedly grabbed her steering wheel, the High Court heard today.

A young male pedestrian was killed in a road accident in Co Carlow this morning.

The high optimism levels revealed in the annual Irish Examiner ICMSA farming poll are remarkable, for a sector which provides so many of its members with such low incomes.

Almost 70% of those living in the countryside believe the divide between urban and rural Ireland is wider than ever.

THERE has been a slight increase in the number of farmers who are unsure what will happen to their land in future.

An elderly man sustained first-degree burns after he slipped and became stuck between his bed and a radiator.

Accidents "are not always someone else's fault", a High Court judge said when dismissing a man's damages claim over a midsummer's evening road accident.

Fiann Ó Nualláin says the Carlow Garden Festival has something for all interests

When I was a child in the 1950s in the small Carlow town of Tullow, trips to the shrine at Knock were part of growing up.

The jury will resume deliberations tomorrow morning in the trial of a 53-year-old Wexford man, charged with murdering a 41-year-old, on whom he stamped a number of times.

More than 50 people were arrested yesterday in a day-long swoop by over 140 gardaí aimed at crimes such as drug-dealing, forgery and burglary.

Gardaí investigating burglaries and car thefts in Co Carlow have arrested two men in Dublin.

Today, July 28

An Irish woman is among a BBC team expelled from North Korea for what is been described as "disrespectful reporting".

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Three cousins facing charges of impersonating gardaí in a robbery on the M7 on Wednesday appeared at Naas District Court yesterday.

The GAA’s Central Council have chosen to withdraw their motion proposing an All-Ireland “B” championship be introduced next year.

This month marks year nine of Páraic Duffy’s term as GAA director general.

Two of Ireland’s most promising young stars are hoping to ride the feelgood factor from the Walker Cup and rack up big finishes in the Volopa Irish Challenge at Mount Wolseley this week.

Almost exactly 12 months after his heart-warming proposal became an internet sensation, a romantic Irish solider has finally married the girl of his dreams.

The gutsy seven-year-old Ravished bagged the €40,000 McSweeney Arms Hotel Killarney National for Mouse Morris, Gigginstown House Stud and Bryan Cooper in Killarney last night.

Gardaí have suffered so much from pay cuts some are sleeping in cars because they cannot afford to drive home, the annual conference for rank-and-file members has heard.

Gardaí want to be issued with tasers to subdue religious extremists because the likelihood is ordinary units will have to deal with them first before armed backup arrives.

Gardaí are to demand that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission reveals what personal data it retains on individual members of the force.