Around 1,900 households are without power this morning due to stormy conditions in parts of the country overnight.

Eirgrid has said it will keep an open mind on the future of its Gridwest scheme after reopening the public consultation process to allow consideration of an underground option.

Traders in Cork City breathed a sigh of relief last night as the city avoided another flood disaster.

Mayo football’s base has moved away from the bastion of the north, in the pursuit of Sam

IN ‘Of One Mind’, one of the short stories in Mike McCormack’s new collection, Forensic Songs, the protagonist describes a ‘weightlessness’ that he has come to experience in his everyday life, a sense of being “at a remove, standing at arm’s length from myself.”

People who fall ill suddenly in rural Kerry, north Mayo, west Clare and south-west Donegal are more than an hour’s drive from a hospital A&E, new research has revealed.

ONE in four motorists are considering reducing their motor insurance coverage due to financial pressures, according to a survey.

AS I STAND at the Mulranny Park Hotel in Co Mayo on day one of a weekend trip, my eye races over the empty spaces, trying to comprehend the beauty of the interlocking mountains, the sweep of the sea, the sense of boundless landscape.

MORE than 50 troops and three Air Corps helicopters were drafted in to help battle wild fires in the north-west.

THERE were strong calls yesterday for new teachers to be given more hours, amid fears that those struggling for work could suffer mental health problems while retired teachers take substitute classes.

SECONDARY school teachers angrily rejected the public sector pay deal, heralding a split within the trade union movement and the possibility of heightened industrial action in schools.

SCHOOL principals need to stand next to teachers in opposing the recruitment ban which has left posts of responsibility unfilled in schools, according to delegates at the ASTI annual conference.

CALLING all hermits and lovers of solitude — the only house on Inishloy Island in Mayo’s Clew Bay is for sale.

THE worldwide phenomenon Google Earth has already tied up outer space and cyber-space, but now it’s focused on the next frontier — Westport, Co Mayo.

Two Irish people were feared dead today following a motorway crash in South Wales.

WORK found me in Co Wicklow for a couple of days recently and I was surprised by the number of deer I saw.

President Mary McAleese is to visit the UK today to mark the centenary of the death of Land League founder Michael Davitt.

TELECOMS regulator Etain Doyle has threatened to withdraw NTL’s digital licence if it does not explain why its customers are still denied access to a full digital service.

A BLANKET ban by publicans on the sale of alcohol to Travellers would only alienate the travelling community further and lead to a flood of discrimination cases against pubs, it was claimed yesterday.