News in Ireland

The Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales have formally declared an interest in hosting Euro 2020, it can be disclosed.The countries have told UEFA that they would be interested in bidding to host ...

Kevin O'Malley was speaking at the opening of IMPACT's biennial conference in Killarney, County Kerry, where 600 union delegates are gathering over the next two days. Mr O'Malley ...

Finance Minister Michael Noonan warned Wednesday.Noonan told a Dublin conference that the Irish government expects to win the May 31 vote but will campaign hard, mindful of past voter rejections of ...

Family and friends of an off-duty garda who died as he helped motorists made an emotional return to the scene today as a bridge was named in his honour.Garda Ciaran Jones was swept from the bridge ...

The Courts Service has revealed RTE's bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds' legal team was more than EUR150,000.Declan O'Neill, Taxing Master, ruled Fr Reynolds' solicitor ...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton has confirmed that birth certs will soon have to include the identity of the father.Minister Burton says she plans to implement the recommendation of ...

The Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte says he had "no hand in determining" how RTE defended or settled a libel action last week. There were rowdy scenes in the Seanad yesterday after a ...

The ten companies, including four Irish, are finalists in an international competition to support entrepreneurs. Start-up Bootcamp is an international network giving budding entrepreneurs a ...

A CONSULTANT linked to plans to develop farmland at the centre of a corrupt payments trial admitted money given to an ex-Fine Gael deputy mayor was "certainly questionable". Fred Forsey ...

Yesterday in Dublin, Palestinians, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign activists and people of conscience marked 64 years since predominantly European colonizers wiped their country off the map, ...

A man in his 70s has died in a crash in Co Tipperary. The single-vehicle collision happened at 3.25pm today at Lagganstown Lower, on a side road off the New Inn - Golden road. The man, who was the ...

A black market fuel-laundering plant costing EUR2m a year in lost taxes has been uncovered.Customs officers disrupted the illegal double processing unit, one concealed in a shed and the other in a ...

The officer of the High Court responsible for assessing and measuring legal costs has reduced by almost €200,000 the fees sought by the solicitor's firm acting for Fr Kevin Reynolds in his ...

Lizzie Simmonds OLYMPIC Swimmer Lizzie Simmonds has earned herself a Brownie badge after making waves in Quorn. The 21-year-old backstroker spent three hours talking to the first Quorn ...

Amanda Halliday A MOTHER of four from Castle Donington has raised more than £2,500 for charity after completing an Arctic Challenge from Norway to Sweden. Amanda Halliday, of High ...

Harry Cook AN OLYMPIC runner has been created by a gardener to help Loughborough in Bloom bring home gold this summer. Forest Road resident Harry Cook has created a torch-bearing wire-frame ...

body advertising A GROUP of students are helping to raise money for their courses by selling their bodies as advertising boards. Jake Smith, Ben Hunt, Tom Williams, Justus Schoeneich and ...

A TWO-week extension has been granted to a group of experts reviewing plans for a long-awaited children's hospital after more alternative sites were offered.Almost 20 possible locations across ...

A HOSPITAL was yesterday given High Court permission to amputate a man's leg to save his life because he is unconscious and his relatives have refused to give consent for the operation. The ...

A 22-year-old man who drunkenly stabbed his father in the hand and threatened to kill gardai when they arrived to assist has been sentenced to eight months in prison. James McDonagh refused to put ...