Simon Harris is expected to announce the decision to join the programme later on Friday.

A wide range of stories feature across Friday's newspaper front pages, including the fatal stabbing of a Dublin grandfather at home.

A report found that last year there were 76 reported incidents, compared with 42 in 2023 and 12 in 2022.

Tomasz Orzel's wife, Anna of Clondalkin, Dublin, had sued Padraig Thornton Waste Disposal Ltd with offices at Park West Business Park, Dublin, as a result of the accident.

Liam Gorman, Silverwood, Mountmellick, Co Laois, has been repeatedly ordered by the court not to trespass on the 400 acre Garryowen Bog, Tinnahinch, which owned Bord na Mona Biomass (BnMB) Ltd.

Counsel described it as an unusual case where the applicants have alleged bullying and harassment; however, the senior officer's case was that he was acting in the course of his duty.

Craig McKeever of Dromard Road, Drimnagh, Dublin, appeared before Judge Susan Fay at Dublin District Court on Thursday and was denied bail.

The post tax profits at the cookery school last year resulted in accumulated profits rising to €3.05 million.

Witness Emma Farrell told the Central Criminal Court jury that her husband's violence could 'erupt spontaneously without any provocation'

The man has been named locally as Colm Lynch O’Sullivan (22) of Cloncourse, Ballaghmore, Laois. He was originally from Roscrea in Co Tipperary.

New analysis shows that consultants could have have held 1.5 million more appointments last year if they were operating on 2016 productivity levels.

The complainant’s mother, her uncle, and another man face a total of 21 counts of sexual assault and rape

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Alan Campbell was convicted for having indecent images of children.

University Hospital Limerick (UHL) has seen the highest productivity increase since before Covid-19, according to a new analysis of HSE data.

Matthew Notman of Laburnam House, Laburnam Avenue, Kirkby in Nottingham in the UK appeared before a sitting of Skibbereen District Court in west Cork in January of this year.

Matthew Brogan, 29, from Drumbeg South in Craigavon, was sentenced to a total of 40 months, 20 of which will be spent on licence after his release.

Mark Lawless sought compensation for an injury he allegedly sustained to his back when he emptied soiled hay from a wheelbarrow

Jibola Moses Akanni (27) of St Laurence Drive, Drogheda, Co Louth, was found guilty of two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault

Joseph Lawlor (39) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Michael Ryan (51)