The Republic and Northern Ireland saw travel disruption with fallen trees blocking roads and flights and ferries also being affected

The new accounts filed by Ashford Castle Hotel Ltd show that the hotel returned to pre-tax profit as revenues increased by 117 per cent rising from €12.5m to €27.1m last year.

The details of the letter emerged during Leaders’ Questions on Wednesday.

In a detailed judgement handed down on Wednesday Mr Justice David Holland said that the board's decision to grant planning permission, in July 2021, to Ironborn Real Estate Limited to develop the site should be quashed.

Butterly said the policy was the head doorman's initiative and could not say how much of the policy he was “willing to own".

The INMO industrial relations officer, Liam Conway said: “It has been over twenty months since the Government announced that patient-facing healthcare workers would receive a €1,000 pandemic recognition payment.

Judge Gabbett said that he understood the parents' predicament and told the boy’s mother in court “you are at your wit’s end”

In 2022, GSOC saw its staff numbers increase to 156, with a budget of €13.67 million for 2022. 

The woman is also accused of a connected offence of being a passenger in a stolen rental GoCar car on the same date

An elite army unit stormed a Panamanian cargo ship in a major operation on Tuesday

The study carried out by the Department of Public Health in St Finbarr’s Hospital in Cork highlights the needs for appropriate healthcare services planning

Figures from the Higher Education Authority (HEA), show dropout rates increased 9 per cent compared to previous years

GRA president Brendan O’Connor said he had ‘even less confidence’ in the Garda Commissioner now

The calls are from the Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA) which represents Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Cavan, and Monaghan

Daa's total turnover for the first six months of 2023 was €458.8 million

Dr Cathal Berry said a multi-agency operation on Tuesday, during which a large quantity of drugs were discovered on a ship off the south coast, had been of international significance

The charity's annual report showed 4,235 children were supported by Focus Ireland's services last year, up from 3,338 in 2021

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Eight counties remain under orange wind and rain warnings

Nicola Keane – a 34-year-old paediatric nurse from Ballina, Co Mayo – jumped to her death off the M50 Westlink bridge in the early hours of October 22nd, 2020.