Food prices fell by just under 1 per cent and rose 4 per cent in the year.

The couple are survived by their three children, Zoe (18), Mia (12) and Jay (11).

Of the total number of people waiting for a bed, 387 of those are in emergency departments, while the remaining 206 are in wards elsewhere.

The State-sponsored body has reached an agreement to purchase the 3.79-hectare Royal Liver site on the Naas Road

Friday's front pages

GE HealthCare has announced a €132 million investment to expand its media fill and finish manufacturing site in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork

Two men, aged in their 20s, have died and two people have been hospitalised following a crash in Co Carlow in the early hours of Friday morning

ESB Networks have made progress in repairing the damage done from Storm Eowyn but 76,000 homes, farms and businesses are still without power

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Outgoing senators Ronán Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins were re-elected on the eighth count.

Palestinian Ambassador Dr Jilan Abdalmajid was speaking in Galway.

Generators from Romania are expected to arrive in Ireland on Friday as work continues to reconnect water and electricity supplies after Storm Eowyn.

The ban on XL bully dogs is due to come into force on February 1st.

Anthony Condron (29), of Sandyhill Gardens, Ballymun, Dublin 1, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of criminal damage

Drew Harris says he wants to maximise the numbers.

McCauley is one of the so-called Colombia Three, accused of training rebel FARC guerrilla forces in 2001.

Calvin Dunne (24), of Abbey View, Monasterevin, Co Kildare, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Dylan McCarthy

The number spiked over the Christmas holidays.

Daragh Hayes (37) and Cian Hayes (33) lured their friend Ciaran Ryan and set upon him with a hurley and a foot-long steel wrench.

A boy who should be detained in secure State care on foot of a High Court order is hearing voices encouraging him to kill and harm others, a judge has been told