Tributes have been paid to the 30-year-old man who died in a fire at a funeral home on Monday night.

As freezing temperatures chilled them to the core last night, hundreds of diehard Garth Brooks fans probably often wondered would tomorrow ever come.

GINA Kerry rates the phone calls from strangers in Ghana purporting to have seen her missing aunt and asking for money to be wired through Western Union among the crueller hoaxes she’s endured in the 20-year search for her loved one.

Two women have been jailed for four years for killing a grandfather at a party in Waterford last year.

A mother of four who killed a grandfather at a party in Waterford last year told a judge she is “ashamed” of what she has done.

He may have helped to make certain the Sam Maguire would be under no Kerry Christmas tree this year, but Dublin GAA star Bernard Brogan paved the way for Santa Claus in the great footballing town of Listowel last night by switching on the Christmas lights.

The last words of a man being beaten to death were a plea to his attacker to stop hitting him, a court has heard.

A man accused of inflicting “serious injuries” on a female garda who was struck in the face with a beer keg at the weekend was granted bail yesterday.

A man found dead in a Waterford City apartment suffered head injuries in an incident involving at least one other person, gardaí believe.

A CONVICTED killer who had bitten off part of a man’s ear during an earlier dispute and posted it through the victim’s letterbox in an envelope some days later has been jailed for four years.

A 30-year-old man will appear before a court in the North today charged with possessing and making a bomb.

The Apple Farm, Moorstown, Cahir, Co Tipperary are now selling Jonagored eating apples and Bramley cookers; apple juice and apple jelly; farm-made cider vinegar and strawberry and plum jams.

Martin McGuinness is reportedly set to reject allegations at the Bloody Sunday inquiry that he was involved in a botched IRA ambush on the day of the shootings and was forced to flee with a gun hidden up his shirt.