Independent TD Michael Lowry also said it was not made with malicious intent.

The man in his 50s has been removed from the scene to Tallaght Hospital to be treated for injuries believed to be serious but non-life-threatening.

Ilamar Rodrigues Ribeiro (54) was arrested by investigating gardaí from the Garda Human Trafficking and Co-ordination Unit when he returned to Ireland from his native Brazil.

Eldhose Yohannan (39), originally from India but with an address at Milltown, Dromcliff, Co Sligo, initially denied the sexual assaults on the two patients on separate dates in 2022

Mr Justice Brian Cregan last week granted Niamh Farrell a short-term injunction restraining Coláiste Éanna from continuing the disciplinary process

The industrial action throughout the mental health services will take the form of a ‘work to rule’ with nurses only performing duties that are part of the core nursing role.

Last year was the worst year for motor theft in Ireland in more than a decade. 

The "introvert", in his early 30s, is awaiting sentencing in July at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court

Since this research had taken place, one in eight 25-year-olds has emigrated.

Verona Murphy is facing criticism for her handling of an acrimonious sitting on Tuesday when contentious changes to speaking rights were voted through.

Loughrea in Co Galway has been crowned Ireland’s best driving test centre

A rare sighting of a sperm whale was made in the Waterford Estuary

Blaa, the name of a soft white bread roll dusted with flour, regularly associated with Waterford, is one of the words included

349 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 157 are in hospital wards elsewhere.

Spanish have gone public with an operation against a drug trafficking gang smuggling cocaine and marihuana into Ireland from Spain which has led to 20 arrests

An operation involving the National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau as well as armed units arrested five men in the Dublin area.

Lubo Kosturik said the staff of Luvida Restaurant in Navan, Co Meath, have been "blown away" by the reaction the post has received

Police have appealed for information about the incident in the early hours of Wednesday.

Two other people were treated for smoke inhalation in the incident in Newtownards.

Michael Gaine was last seen on Thursday, with CCTV footage showing him buying phone credit in a Centra near Kenmare.