Striped skunks are opportunistic omnivores that eat insects, small mammals, and the eggs and chicks of ground-nesting birds.

According to the Department of Defence, three High Court orders have been obtained since the end of May against individuals in illegal occupation on the Curragh plains

Laois second nationally in terms of housing delivery 

The teenager appeared before Judge Patricia Cronin at the Dublin Children's Court on Wednesday.

Ella Hendricken, Niamh Kinsella and Alma Kinsella, and a young boy were seriously injured when a car crashed into their vehicle.

Jack was one of the five teenagers who died in a motorway crash in Co Kildare earlier this month.

Simon Harris said there are deep societal issues which need to be examined, saying it is multifaceted.

There was a heavy police presence for the funeral mass of 18-year-old Jeremy O’Brien.

Garda checkpoints, as well as various garda vehicles, including the Public Order Unit, were in place in Carlow for the funeral of Jeremy O’Brien.

Five teenagers were killed when the car they were travelling in was driven the wrong way down the M9 in Co Kildare and hit another vehicle.

A prayer vigil in solidarity with the injured women and boy was held on Friday evening in Saint Clare’s Church in Graiguecullen.

Gardaí maintained a presence around the funeral mass of a teenager who died in a horror wrong-way crash on a motorway last weekend.

Joe Carthy was one of five teenagers who died after the car they were travelling in was driven the wrong way down the M9

The child and family agency also confirmed that two of the other teens who died were known to it.

It said it would not be “appropriate” for it to be the sole video-sharing company to be called in front of the committee when similar content appears on other social media platforms.

There has been renewed focus on videos of dangerous driving following a fatal crash on Sunday.

It comes after five teenagers were killed in a crash on Sunday in Co Kildare.

Alma and Niamh remain in a critical condition in Tallaght University Hospital, while their younger sister Ellie, is being treated for serious injuries in St Vincent’s University Hospital after she was transferred from St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny.

Questions have been raised over the capacity to deliver garda pursuit training this year.

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has said driving the wrong way down a motorway may need to become a specific criminal offence

Five teenagers died after the car in which they were travelling the wrong way down a motorway was involved in a head-on crash with another vehicle.

Micheál Martin was speaking after a horror fatal head-on crash with involving a stolen vehicle.

Sisters Alma and Niamh Kinsella, aged in their 30s, were in the front of the car while their younger sister Ellie Hendricken, who is in her 20s, was in a rear seat passenger along with her nephew.

Five teenagers, all occupants of one of the vehicles, died and four other people were seriously injured in a crash on the M9 motorway in Co Kildare.

Another sister and seven-year-old son of one of the women remain in serious condition in separate hospitals.

Five people have died in the crash near Moone, which has been referred to Fiosrú.

The Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team responded to a request for assistance from An Garda Síochána in relation to suspected historic ordnance found in Sillot Hill landfill.

The collision with a car happened on the R414 Rathangan Road in Monasterevin at 9.50am on Monday

The Kilcullen to Naas Road has been closed for several hours at Sillot Hill Landfill.

It happened on the Rathangan Road near Monasterevin in Kildare shortly before 10am,

Three occupants of one car were taken to hospital.

Locked Out of the Market Report by Simon Communities of Ireland Finds Just 20 HAP Properties Available in 16 Areas surveyed in June

This driver, on the M1 Greenfields, was recorded as part of the Roads Policing operation for the Bank Holiday weekend.

“He was a very good neighbour to everybody down there, and did an awful lot of things quietly around the place"

On the day she disappeared, Jacob had walked into Newbridge town to organise a bank draft for £100. 

EDITORS and news business leaders have told TDs and Senators that more support is needed to protect the vital role that newspapers and their digital channels play in Ireland’s democracy.

A KILDARE mother and father were sentenced in Naas Circuit Court as a result of years of abuse and neglect to their children.

A FORMER Christian brother from Athy will now have to stand trial in the Circuit Court for an allegation of sexual abuse that is more than 50 years old.

“A car was followed from Rathdowney, Co Laois to Newbridge,”  Detective Garda Kate Gilligan alleged.

The mail train robbery took place on March 31st, 1976, when the Cork-to-Dublin train was diverted near the Co Kildare town and an estimated £200,000 was stolen.

At a sentencing hearing at Naas Circuit Criminal Court on Friday, Murphy, who had kept his head bowed in court, showed no visible reaction as Judge Elva Duffy sentenced him to five years in prison.

The latest enforcement action targeted individuals operating across Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Kildare, Galway, Laois and Limerick

A yellow high-temperature warning is currently in place for Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Galway and Mayo until 7am on Wednesday.