
An estranged father who sexually assaulted his then-ten-year-old daughter seven years ago will escape a two-year jail term – if he pays her €12,000 within the...

“I just had a deep belief I was going to complete it – and nothing was going to stop me.” Those were the words of former...

For so long he pounded the roads around his native Oughterard before modestly setting off around the world to represent Ireland at the Mexico Olympics or...

Environment and human rights’ activists who snort cocaine were labelled “hypocrites of the highest order” by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris. Ireland’s highest-ranking Garda made the comments...

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris faced stinging criticism this week for the re-organisation of the An Garda Síochána in County Galway – and a reduction in Garda...

Irish customers are paying the second-highest rate of excise tax on alcohol in Europe. Consumers fond of their wine here are paying the highest excise tax...

College authorities are considering running shuttle buses from the county’s commuter towns in an attempt to deal with the city’s crippling accommodation crisis. As a significant...

Patricia Burke Brogan, the woman who was instrumental in highlighting the inhumanity of the Magdalen Laundries, has died peacefully, aged 90. One of Ireland’s first whistleblowers,...