A quick-thinking garda has become the first person to receive two National Bravery Awards in the same year in the ceremony’s 67-year history, after risking his own life to ensure the safety of the public.

Galway was the big winner at the Georgina Campbell Awards, taking the top prizes for best restaurant and best seafood restaurant.

Carraig Donn, the gifts and clothing chain, is to create 100 new jobs.

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

Two children have died in a car accident after they went missing with their father.

Put down those glittering Oscars, Golden Globes, Baftas — and yes, even a Razzie.

FORMER conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf could make their first steps with new limbs as early next year.

Team Ireland were in jubilant form having staked their claim on 18 medals on day three of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens.

“IF you don’t remember anything about today, try and remember my son’s picture. Nobody is smiling in it,” a road traffic victim told a conference on the Human Impact of Road Collisions yesterday.

FIRST-TIME novelist Paul Soye started out in social work. First he was a volunteer, then he had paid jobs, and, after a stint in France, he got a qualification. But he’s no stranger to writing. The 59-year-old is the prize-winning playwright of Cherished, and The Birdcage. But a novel seemed a step too far.

IRELAND has a very small percentage of woodland, approximately 1.5% deciduous and 5% as forestry plantations of conifer.

Wall Street retreated again today after readings on jobs and manufacturing indicated that businesses and workers still face a tough economy.

Developers should be forced to pay more towards the cost of local amenities, it was claimed today.

JOYCEAN sayings, memories of Roman emperors and talk of Cassanova surfaced in Westport, Co Mayo, at the weekend.

FINE GAEL is to reverse its ban on corporate donations because it says it will be impossible to compete on a level playing pitch with Fianna Fáil.