Greece, hosts of UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round Group 3, have been preparing hard for their assignments against the Republic of Ireland, Finland and...

Mar 18 2010 A five-year-old boy took his family's automatic 4x4 on a four-mile "joyride" before crashing it into a wall, it has been disclosed. Traffic officers described the incident as...

Mar 18 2010 Two Army bomb disposal experts have been awarded the George Cross for the extraordinary bravery they displayed in tackling Taliban explosives in Afghanistan. One of the pair, Staff...

Mar 18 2010 Councils should not be expected to foot the bill for plans to ban certain types of rubbish from landfill, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. And it said councils are...

Mar 18 2010 The vast majority of England's universities will see their public funding slashed next year. Oxford and Cambridge are among those losing out this year, as institutions are hit with...

At the Philadelphia Flower Show, the crowd is snaking along the pathway through the Irish garden display, their eyes intently raking the underbrush as if engaged in an Easter egg hunt for adults.In a...

The report into the events of Bloody Sunday will be not now be handed to the government next week as planned.Instead lawyers for the government will review the report while it remains in the...

Coleraine expect to have top scorer Rory Patterson in their team for Friday's league clash after his brief spell on trial at Plymouth Argyle.Patterson upset Coleraine management by not letting them...

A Catholic archbishop has said that all allegations of abuse are reported fully and without delay to state authorities.Archbishop Dermot Clifford was speaking after a priest in his archdiocese said...

Anglo Irish Bank , is being questioned by the Garda Siochana over allegations of financial irregularities.He stepped down as the bank's boss in December 2008 after admitting he had hidden millions of...

V ATICAN CITY - The Vatican says the pope’s letter to Irish Catholics on the clerical sex abuse crisis will be released Saturday. Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes the letter will help the...

Traffic is returning to normal this afternoon after disruptions in Dublin, Cork and Limerick - caused by a three-hour taxi drivers' protest.The Irish Taxi Council organised the protest to call for a...

Hundreds of flood victims in Cork are now facing another battle - as insurance companies refuse to provide flood cover.Up to 400 people have had to renew their policy since the River Lee burst its...

Paul Doolin was today officially unveiled as the manager of the Republic of Ireland U-23 team. Doolin, who has previously managed Cork City, Drogheda United and UCD, will take charge of Ireland’s...

New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Thanks to a late run down the stretch, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish earned the six seed in the South Region and will open the NCAA Tournament with a first round...

The Labour Relations Commission is to meet Aer Lingus management and the IMPACT trade union separately tomorrow in a bid to resolve the cabin crew dispute at the airline. However, sources stressed...

Ireland has received final warnings from the European Commission on four cases over failing to comply with rulings from the European Court of Justice. The Commission has detailed the cases,...

The Labour Relations Commission is to meet separately with Aer Lingus management and the IMPACT trade union tomorrow in a bid to resolve the cabin crew dispute at the airline. However, sources...

Mar 18 2010 Tributes have been paid to two British soldiers killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Scott Hardy and Private James Grigg, both from the 1st Battalion The Royal...

Mar 18 2010 A former detective who was "pivotal" to the success of a £200 million cocaine-smuggling plot has been jailed for 22 years. Michael Daly, who is already serving eight years...

Gardai today arrested one of their colleagues over the leaking of a letter that led to the resignation of former junior minister Trevor Sargent. The female officer, in her early thirties, was taken...

Financial Services Authority (FSA) said yesterday it is hiring 460 workers this year to help implement new European insurance rules and bolster supervision with a more "proactive" approach it said...

Pope Benedict XVI's letter to Irish Catholics on a developing sex scandal will be released Saturday, the Vatican said Thursday. The Pope hopes the letter will help repair some of the damage caused...

Damage estimated at thousands of pounds has been caused to a number of cars parked near an Orange hall in Enniskillen. The vehicles belonged to people who were attending a certificate presentation...

Some came to show their Irish pride. Others came for the sun. Either way, the streets of downtown St. Paul were a sea of green Wednesday afternoon as thousands turned out for the city's 44th St....

Cabin crew at Aer Lingus have accepted an invitation to attend talks at the Labour Relations Commission - over the cost cutting dispute at the airline.Aer Lingus announced last week it was imposing...

Lawyers for the Department of Communications have called on the Chairman of the Moriarty Tribunal to admit he mis-represented the facts surrounding the issuing of the mobile phone licence to ESAT...

Dr Maurice Hayes is to chair the review into failures at Tallagh Hospital.The review - ordered by head of the HSE Professor Brendan Drumm - is to investigate the delay in reporting radiological exams...

A female garda has been arrested in connection with the leaking of information which led to the resignation of Trevor Sargent.The former Junior Minister stepped down after a newspaper revealed he had...

More than 800 teenagers today revealed their plans to try to solve some of Ireland’s most pressing problems.Homelessness, homophobia, domestic violence and child abuse were among the key social...

nationalised in January 2009 following a spate of governance scandals.Mr FitzPatrick, one of the founders of the bank, was arrested at 6.30am on Thursday by officers from the Garda (police) bureau of...

Two men have been sentenced in London to lengthy prison terms for their part in the importation of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine at Dunlough Bay in Cork in 2007. Michael Daly, 49, a former London...

The High Court has approved a settlement of €4.5m in the case of a 25-year-old woman who was severely injured in a car accident in 2006. Claire Noone from Summerhill in Co Meath needs...

Fine Gael claims it could create 6,000 jobs, if in government, by attracting international students to Ireland. The party is to launch its policy on international education today. It says it would...

On behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Tilly O'Neill-Gordon, Member of Parliament (Miramichi) today announced funding for the...

Mar 18 2010 British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh is involved in surprise last minute talks over the planned strike by the airline's cabin crew. Sources have said that Mr Walsh was holding...

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI's highly anticipated pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland dealing with a child sex abuse scandal involving priests, will be published on Saturday, the Vatican...

By Andras Gergely DUBLIN, March 18 (Reuters) - Police have arrested Sean FitzPatrick, the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, sources said, the first casualty of a fraud investigation seen as...

Ireland after claims that a girl abused by a priest was sworn to secrecy in an out-of-court settlement as recently as 2000. The victim went public with her claims that she was abused over a 10-year ...

Police have praised the "huge effort" that ensured St Patrick's Day in the Holyland area of south Belfast passed largely without incident. Last year, several police officers were hurt and...

The jury in the case of a Cavan man accused of shooting a man in the head as he slept next to his girlfriend, has been discharged at the Central Criminal Court today.The six men and six women of the...

The Pope’s letter to Irish Catholics on the clerical sex abuse crisis will be released on Saturday, the Vatican said today.The Pope has said he hopes the letter will help the Irish faithful heal...

Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes the letter will help the Irish faithful heal following years of abuse and cover-ups on the part of church leaders.The Vatican press office said the text of the...

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A man in his 40s has been arrested after two men were stabbed last night at a hotel in Newry, Co Down. The PSNI were called to the premises at Francis Street around 10pm. One of the victims, a man...

Mr Justice Michael Moriarty has hit out at critics of the long-running Tribunal saying he would not be distracted by public relations, by spin or other controversies in preparing his report. ...

Mar 18 2010 Car and commercial vehicle production accelerated sharply ahead last month, it has been announced. Car production increased 62.7% compared with February 2009, when the industry was...

Mar 18 2010 Councils should not be expected to foot the bill for plans to ban certain types of rubbish from landfill, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. And it said councils are...