Allergan forecasts 2019 revenue below expectations on looming competition for some of its top drugs and has shelved plans to sell its women’s health business.

Increased security at Irish airports and ports will have to happen even if the UK does not crash out of the EU, the Taoiseach has said.

The Taoiseach has ruled out a rural relocation scheme as a solution to the housing and homeless crises.

Criminalising coercive control in the home will keep women alive but the law has yet to be implemented, says social change agency Safe Ireland.

Criminalising coercive control in the home will keep women alive but the law has yet to be implemented, says social change agency Safe Ireland.

The Menu has long been a fan of the work of Dr Colin Sage of the School of the Human Environment, in UCC, and also Founder/Chair of the Cork Food Policy Council.

The union representing the country’s postmasters has called on An Post to support new services and innovations across its network in a bid to save post offices across the country.

The bodies of a woman and her seven-year-old son have been discovered after police forced their way into a house in London.

An Irish author who wrote an entire book in a single, novel-length sentence has praised his publisher for being willing to take a risk after it scooped a £10,000 (€11,480) prize.

A young member of the Garda Drug Squad, who was repeatedly stabbed and seriously injured while affecting an arrest, was yesterday awarded what is believed to be a record €1.1m damages in the High Court.

Mid-ranking gardaí will risk breaking the law by considering strike action in a serious ratcheting up of their industrial relations dispute.

The Chieftains’ Matt Molloy talks to Eoin Edwards about some of his and his instrument’s epic journeys

An all-star, eclectic line-up is expected to draw 20,000 revellers to the Killarney Festival of Music and Food, on June 27-28.

From Monday October 27 to Friday October 31 the children are off school. This can mean one and one thing only: you need to keep them busy. Very busy.

Kilkenny City has been named as the winner of 2014's Tidy Towns competition.

It is with great distress The Menu learns of the difficulties facing the magnificent Co Clare-based Irish Seed Savers, in very real danger of perishing due to severe Dept of Agriculture funding cuts.

Carlow man Sanjeev Chada is to appear before a special sitting of Swinford District Court at 9pm this evening charged in connection with the murders of his sons Eoghan (10) and Ruairi (5).

Slain brothers Eoghan and Ruairi Chada were curled up beside each other and looked like they were asleep when gardaí opened the boot of the car driven by their father Sanjeev.

Detectives in two counties are investigating the deaths of two children found dead in a car driven by their father.

Gardaí were last night waiting to question a man in connection with the death of his two children after a nationwide search for them.

The country’s 11,300 frontline gardaí may resign in a mass protest, if the Government ploughs ahead with its plan to impose further pay cuts on members.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has challenged rank-and-file officers to prove allegations that official crime figures are being massaged.

One garda a day is becoming insolvent, others have lost their homes through bankruptcy, and many more have become so disillusioned with the job and the country that they are planning to resign or emigrate.

Delegates representing rank and file gardaí will demand they have a voice at future negotiations on pay.

District Court summonses have plummeted in the first quarter of this year due to new directives to gardaí.

Frontline gardaí are to demand an independent police authority, to remove political influence from a force which they maintain is being stripped of its power to protect the public and tackle crime.

Despite a significant amount of dissent, rank-and-file gardaí have voted to invite Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan to speak at their annual conference.

As relations between the gardaí and Justice Minister Alan Shatter grow increasingly strained, a government TD has asked the Taoiseach to appoint a junior minister to the department, claiming Mr Shatter “doesn’t have the time to engage properly with gardaí”.

The son of bankrupt billionaire Seán Quinn was removed from a train for being drunk and abusive.

The scourge of knife crime among young men “urgently needs to be tackled”, according to research into assault cases at one of the country’s busiest emergency departments.

In a further escalation in their dispute with Garda management, rank-and-file members of the force have taken an unprecedented vote to bar their commissioner, Martin Callinan, and other members of Garda management from the forthcoming annual general meeting of the Garda Representative Association (GRA).

An unprecedented vote of no confidence in Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan by more than 350 Cork gardaí is gaining support nationwide.

The husband of Savita Halappanavar gripped her hand during the final heartbreaking moments of her life.

Connacht Gold chairman Padraig Gibbons has been appointed as chairman of the appeals committee for the controversial 2012 disadvantaged areas scheme (DAS).

Pop superstar Robbie Williams has a private jet on standby as he plays a sell-out Dublin concert tonight in case his pregnant wife goes into labour.

A Cabinet reshuffle to revitalise the Coalition has been ruled out by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald has defended government plans for a referendum on children’s rights following expert claims there is no need for one.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today insisted that a planned value-based property tax will be as fair, affordable and equitable as possible.

An Irish engineer was shot dead after he was ambushed in south-east Nigeria.

An Irish engineer was shot dead after he was ambushed in south east Nigeria, it has emerged.