University Hospital Limerick had the highest number of patients without a bed this month at 1,215.

Colum Eastwood will stand down at the party’s conference in October.

Coastguard rescue teams and a helicopter rescued the man from Carrick-a-Rede island in a ‘delicate operation’.

The leaders of Ireland’s three coalition parties decided on Thursday that the State would not procure any further defence equipment from Israel.

Shaun Brady was shot dead outside his restaurant in Kansas City on Wednesday.

Coldplay kicked off their four-night stint in Dublin's Croke Park to a sold-out stadium last night

A man, aged in his 30s, has been arrested following reports of an incident of criminal damage in Mayo

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The number of new homes sold every year is being unreported by over 30 per cent, according to real estate agent DNG

The risk of political violence in the United States is "very real" ahead of November's presidential election, according to a US national security expert

The PSNI said the arrests followed a ‘complex and time-intensive investigation’ involving numerous agencies.

It follows a number of alleged arson attacks on buildings in the east Donegal village of St Johnston on Wednesday evening.

He is currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939 at a garda station in the southern region.

New accounts show that DirectRoute (Limerick) Ltd last year enjoyed the operating profit surge as revenues went up by 10 per cent from €24.67m to €27.19m.

New childcare subsidy rates will reduce costs for thousands of families by almost €100 a week.

At a sitting of the Family Law Court, solicitor, Anne Walsh made the request on behalf of the mother of the boy going into junior infants this week.

Afghan national Alinna Shafaie, who is of no fixed abode, claims to be 26, but his age and his identity were disputed by a garda who arrested him on Wednesday on Trinity Street Dublin 2.

In a statement online, management and staff at Brady and Fox said that their “hearts are broken” following the death of Shaun.

The Department for Children sand a subsidy increase will see cost reductions of up to €96.30 a week per child.

‘The period of elevated inflation now appears to have passed,’ Finance Minister Jack Chambers said of the inflation figure of 1.1%.