More than 1.5 million people in receipt of core weekly social welfare payments are to receive an average of €520 more this ...

Apart from today, that is. On January 1st, 1926, Irish broadcasting began, as Douglas Hyde – later to become first president ...

On this first day of 2026, the year that lies ahead is freighted with uncertainty. In Ireland, doubt remains about whether ...

A hate crime investigation has been launched by gardaí after anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on roads in Co Louth. Swastika ...

Victim, who has been named locally as Eileen Kelly, understood to have been attacked by one of two dogs she owns ...

The Tuam Herald, published weekly since May 1837, is being bought by the Mullingar-based Celtic Media Group. The Connacht ...

Some 1,100kg of chewing tobacco worth an estimated €600,000 has been seized at Dublin Port. Revenue said its officers made ...

The amiable African-American director, now 39, has been on a roll since his Fruitvale Station, a taut social-realist piece ...

Gardaí have recovered almost €1.5 million worth of drugs and cash in separate operations in Cork and Limerick. Gardaí ...

The world has started to ring in the new year with firework displays in Australia and New Zealand. In Sydney, all eyes were ...

A man in his 30s has been arrested in Co Carlow following the seizure of drugs and vapes worth more than €200,000. A house in ...

The death has occurred in Dublin of the writer Seán Mac Mathúna, aged 89. A native of Co Kerry, he was among a small number ...